Hyderabad, June 14: Acknowledging that the popularity of the Left was waning in West Bengal, the CPI national council has decided to introspect on the reasons.
With the Left Front suffering serious setbacks in the recent local body elections in that State, the CPI decided to go into a huddle in view of the Assembly elections there next year, national secretariat member Shameem Faizi told reporters here today.
He said that as the CPM was leading the Left alliance in the West Bengal, the CPI expected that it too would undertake a similar exercise.
“We will work out some measures to arrest the decline of Left popularity in West Bengal,’’ he said. On the second day of its national council meeting here today, the CPI adopted three resolutions.
It wanted the Centre to redraft the proposed Right to Food Act to meet nutritional requirements and ensure availability of foodgrains. The party felt that the UPA government was not sincere in addressing the real concerns of the masses and implementing the National Food Security Act.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Global Hunger Index ranked India 65 among 84 countries, Faizi pointed out.
The UPA government had thrown the poor at the mercy of the market economy, he lamented.
The CPI also adopted another resolution opposing the entry of foreign universities into the country. This would open the field of higher education to profit-mongers.
“The universities attempting to come to India lack any appreciable recognition or credibility in their own countries,’’ the CPI noted.
–Agencies