The CPI(M) leadership in Kerala is confident that the alliance between the Left party and the Congress in West Bengal will not have any impact on the party's prospects in Kerala simply because the state's political equations are different.
The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front, which is engaged in a head to head fight against the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala, feels that the electoral alliance in Bengal was occasioned by the state's prevailing unique ground level situation.
"It was the Congress which had forged an alliance with the TMC and helped them remove the Left Front regime during the 2011 Assembly elections. Now the Congress had realized its mistake and there is an understanding based on the prevailing ground level situation in the state," CPI-M politburo member M A Baby told PTI.
"It will not have any impact on our party's prospects in Kerala because we are here fighting against the atrocities of the Congress government," Baby said.
However, a section of Kerala CPI(M) leaders felt that party comrades in Bengal campaigning together with Congress workers had given the BJP ammunition for poll campaign in Kerala.
"We very well understand that democracy needs to be restored in Bengal since hundreds of our party's cadres have been killed in the five years of TMC rule, which is why an electoral understanding was chalked out with the Congress," a CPI-M leader from Kerala, who did not wish to be named, said.
"But neither an alliance with the Congress nor sharing of platform with the Congress was the mandate of the central committee," he said.
Another Left leader from Kerala pointed out that it was a contradiction of the official party line adopted in the last party congress which called for keeping both the Congress party and the BJP at bay.
"The CPI(M) is a national and not a regional party and it has to stick to the line adopted at the party congress," he said on condition of anonymity.
Source: PTI
The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front, which is engaged in a head to head fight against the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala, feels that the electoral alliance in Bengal was occasioned by the state's prevailing unique ground level situation.
"It was the Congress which had forged an alliance with the TMC and helped them remove the Left Front regime during the 2011 Assembly elections. Now the Congress had realized its mistake and there is an understanding based on the prevailing ground level situation in the state," CPI-M politburo member M A Baby told PTI.
"It will not have any impact on our party's prospects in Kerala because we are here fighting against the atrocities of the Congress government," Baby said.
However, a section of Kerala CPI(M) leaders felt that party comrades in Bengal campaigning together with Congress workers had given the BJP ammunition for poll campaign in Kerala.
"We very well understand that democracy needs to be restored in Bengal since hundreds of our party's cadres have been killed in the five years of TMC rule, which is why an electoral understanding was chalked out with the Congress," a CPI-M leader from Kerala, who did not wish to be named, said.
"But neither an alliance with the Congress nor sharing of platform with the Congress was the mandate of the central committee," he said.
Another Left leader from Kerala pointed out that it was a contradiction of the official party line adopted in the last party congress which called for keeping both the Congress party and the BJP at bay.
"The CPI(M) is a national and not a regional party and it has to stick to the line adopted at the party congress," he said on condition of anonymity.
Source: PTI
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