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CPI (M) faults AICC resolution

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI : The Communist Party of India (Marxist) said the Congress had not adequately spelt out how it was going to politically meet the challenge posed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the communal forces.

``While the resolution correctly points out that it will be dangerous to be lulled into a false sense of security, the priority to be given to the fight against the communal forces is not adequately reflected,'' CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat said, commenting on the resolutions adopted by the All India Congress Committee at its Hyderabad plenary.

Analysing the resolutions in the latest issue of the party organ People's Democracy, Mr. Karat said the BJP/RSS combine was actively working to overcome the setbacks it suffered and to rally other forces. In a span of three months, the BJP had joined coalition governments in two States — Bihar and Karnataka — where it had never been in government.

``The communal activities and their harmful impact in States where the BJP is running governments are barely mentioned. This is surprising, given the fact that it is the Congress which is the main opposition in the BJP-run States like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. As far as Gujarat is concerned, the omission is singular. It looks as if the Congress has given up on Gujarat where the Modi Government relentlessly pursues its communal agenda,'' he said.

As for the decision to aggressively confront and fight the Left in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, he said the declaration was ``neither unexpected nor surprising.'' He said the Congress did not implement its stance that it would welcome an alliance with any party that had no truck, direct or indirect, with the BJP.

He said the Congress cooperated with the Trinamool Congress-BJP alliance in many of the local bodies and panchayats in West Bengal.

Even now, the party was making futile attempts to wean away Mamata Banerjee from the BJP and there was talk of putting up one-to-one candidates in all the seats except where the BJP was contesting.

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