New Delhi, June 17: The ongoing violence in West Bengal, factional feud in Kerala and its worst ever electoral performance would come up for review when top CPI(M) leaders meet here from Friday.
The party top brass, who would gather here for the meetings of the Politburo and the Central Committee, may face flak on issues ranging from infighting and corruption to withdrawal of support to the UPA.
However, their major concern would be to find ways and means to tackle the Maoist violence, backed by the opposition parties in West Bengal, party sources said.
Both state units of West Bengal and Kerala, where the CPI(M)-led coalitions suffered their worst poll debacle since the party’s inception in 1964, have come around to agree that there have been serious violations of communist principles by its leaders and cadres, besides other issues, which led to their rout.
While the West Bengal unit noted that a section of party workers had adopted “a lifestyle and attitude not consonant with communist ideology”, the Kerala unit pointed at violation of “Leninist principles” that created a “bad impression” among the people.
The two decision-making bodies of CPI(M), whose strength in Lok Sabha plummeted to 16 from 42, are expected to recommend steps to rectify drawbacks so that the party can confidently face assembly polls in the two states in 2011.
–PTI–