லோக்சபா தேர்தலுக்கு தயாராகுங்கள் - பிரகாஷ் காரட் சிபிஎமுக்கு அறிவுரை

கேரளாவில் ஒருவரோடு ஒருவர் கோஷ்டி சண்டை போட்டுக்கொண்டிருப்பதை நிறுத்தி லோக்சபா தேர்தலுக்கு தயாராக வேண்டும் என்று சிபிஎம் தலைவர் பிரகாஷ் காரட் கூறியுள்ளார்.

இதன் முன் பினாரயி விஜயனையும் அச்சுதானந்தனையும் போலிட்பரோவில் நியமித்துள்ளார்கள்.

கேரளாவிலும் வங்காளத்திலும் மீண்டும் அனைத்து இடங்களையும் கைப்பற்றவேண்டும் என்று முயற்சி செய்கிறார்கள்.

இன்னும் இரண்டு வாரங்களில் மத்திய ஆட்சி கவிழ்க்கப்படும் என்று வதந்தி உலவுகிறது.

Bury hatchet, gear up for poll: Karat to Kerala comrades

Pioneer News Service | Kochi

The central leadership of the CPI(M) has given strict instructions to the Kerala unit leaders, especially arch rivals State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan to ensure "minimisation", if not total "elimination of factional fights", and to prepare for facing the people as the party is convinced that a mid-term election to the Lok Sabha is now a possibility, most probably during the end days of winter in North India.




The Kerala leaders were given formal and informal advises in this regard by party general secretary Prakash Karat and other senior leaders during the central committee meeting in Kolkata, which concluded on Monday. Sources said that internal bickering was the last thing the leadership wanted, as it was not hopeful of repeating a May 2004 performance in the next polls. The first job of the State leaders after reaching Kerala from Kolkata would be to devise administrative and political measures to win back the confidence of the people.



The State leaders would now be looking at programmes for support mobilisation with an eye to election shifting the focus from the ongoing conferences in preparation for the State conference in Kottayam in February and the party national congress scheduled for March in Coimbatore. "The feeling is that the party congress will in all probability have to be deferred to June or July next as election could fall by the end of winter in the North," said a source at AKG Bhavan, the national party headquarters, in New Delhi.



The central leadership is convinced that many of Achuthanandan's popular administrative programmes had failed due to lack of support from a strong section within the CPI(M), the neo-liberalists led by Pinarayi Vijayan and because of non-cooperation or opposition form LDF partners like the CPI and the Kerala Congress(J). The source said that the next LDF meeting would discuss extensively the need for unity and coherence within the front as without that the expected mid-term polls could become a tragedy for the ruling front.



The most immediate administrative measures the Achuthanandan Government would look at would include speedy implementation of the proposals from the Farm Debt Relief Commission, a surprising resumption of the Mission Munnar anti-encroachment drive, steps to complete the road repair works on a war footing, etc. The Kerala Congress(J), which is delaying the selection of its MLA for the post of the Public Works Minister, has already been told that no more delay could be afforded in that matter. The CPI(M) leaders would in the coming days be speaking to the CPI about the several problems it had created politically as well as administratively and would ask it to be realistic about the political situation.



The party central leadership, just like the State leaders, is not confident that the war between the hardliners led by Achuthanandan and neo-liberalists could be contained all of a sudden, but the idea is to keep it low. As local committee conferences of the party are to be completed this month, the party expects group fights to run high but the local units would be asked to avoid unnecessary wrangles that could draw the attention of the media.



The party has observed that the Government had faltered on several fronts, but there is also a feeling that things have not got out of hand, especially since the Congress-led UDF has not been able to utilize these failures effectively though it had made much noise. "If a new vigour can be brought about in the Government programmes, we are sure the party and the LDF can compensate for all the failures so far. The point is that the common man is dissatisfied, and that the problems in this area can be rectified with minimum efforts," said a source.