A stern message to mend their ways have been sent to the party activists by state CPI (M) leadership. Reports of intra-party squabbles have alerted the party leadership.
The party activists have been asked to put up an united front especially when it has its back to the wall. For the first time post independence, none of the Left parties including the CPI (M) have a representative in the state Legislative Assembly.
Successive elections are pointers to CPI(M) losing popularity. It is increasingly emerging as a poor third trailing way behind Trinamool Congress and BJP.
Things could not have been worse for the party whose writ ran in West Bengal for 34 years since 1977 elections. Asking the party activists to be model political workers adhering to the tenets of Communism after more than a three decade long tenure should have been the last thing to figure in the party directive.
But the leadership could not do much else. It had to call upon the activists to adhere to their ideology post “untoward incidents” marking several area conferences as well as conferences of the districts of North and South-24-Parganas.
The leadership’s nod was ignored to make Mrinal Chakraborty the party secretary in North -Parganas. Palas Das found himself in this strategic organisational post a week after the district conference of the party.
Several leaders resigned when some of the members were dropped from South-24-Parganas district committee. Fists flew post disagreements in an area committee meeting in Kasba.
The nature of the incidents differed. But they all boiled down to indiscipline.
It ranged from expressing lack of faith on the district secretary to district leaders resigning to protest against formation of a committee whose composition was not to their liking. Unprecedented incidents like fisticuffs among participants worsened by throwing of chairs marred some of the area committee conferences.
The incidents have carried the wrong message to the remnants of what had been the vote bank of the party. The directive better known as party ir chithi has deplored a tendency of some party activists of failing to work together.
The banishment of one up manship has been a remarkable trait inculcated among CPI(M,) activists. It saw the party emerging victorious in many electoral battles and helped it to fizzle out many agitations against the Left Front government.
The leadership has not been let off in this directive. The lack of an ability to appropriately lead has been pointed out.
The leadership has been further pulled up for not identifying “promising activists’. Such identification process should be done at all levels.
 It is a matter of concern that it is not being done, the directive pointed out. Looking after the whole time activists is being given a go by, it was further pointed out. A stern message to mend their ways have been sent to the party activists by state CPI (M) leadership. Reports of intra-party squabbles have alerted the party leadership.
The party activists have been asked to put up an united front especially when it has its back to the wall. For the first time post independence, none of the Left parties including the CPI (M) have a representative in the state Legislative Assembly.
Successive elections are pointers to CPI(M) losing popularity. It is increasingly emerging as a poor third trailing way behind Trinamool Congress and BJP.
Things could not have been worse for the party whose writ ran in West Bengal for 34 years since 1977 elections. Asking the party activists to be model political workers adhering to the tenets of Communism after more than a three decade long tenure should have been the last thing to figure in the party directive.
But the leadership could not do much else. It had to call upon the activists to adhere to their ideology post “untoward incidents” marking several area conferences as well as conferences of the districts of North and South-24-Parganas.
The leadership’s nod was ignored to make Mrinal Chakraborty the party secretary in North -Parganas. Palas Das found himself in this strategic organisational post a week after the district conference of the party.
Several leaders resigned when some of the members were dropped from South-24-Parganas district committee. Fists flew post disagreements in an area committee meeting in Kasba.
The nature of the incidents differed. But they all boiled down to indiscipline.
It ranged from expressing lack of faith on the district secretary to district leaders resigning to protest against formation of a committee whose composition was not to their liking. Unprecedented incidents like fisticuffs among participants worsened by throwing of chairs marred some of the area committee conferences.
The incidents have carried the wrong message to the remnants of what had been the vote bank of the party. The directive better known as party ir chithi has deplored a tendency of some party activists of failing to work together.
The banishment of one up manship has been a remarkable trait inculcated among CPI(M,) activists. It saw the party emerging victorious in many electoral battles and helped it to fizzle out many agitations against the Left Front government.
The leadership has not been let off in this directive. The lack of an ability to appropriately lead has been pointed out.
The leadership has been further pulled up for not identifying “promising activists’. Such identification process should be done at all levels.
It is a matter of concern that it is not being done, the directive pointed out. Looking after the whole time activists is being given a go by, it was further pointed out.
