NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said it would make an overall assessment of the political situation after the April-May Assembly elections and chalk out its future course of action.

"Whether it is the airport privatisation, foreign direct investment in retail trade or the foreign policy, on a number of issues the Government is going ahead despite the opposition of the Left. The Central Committee decided to make an overall assessment of the political situation after the Assembly elections and to chalk out its future course of action," party general secretary Prakash Karat told a press conference at the end of its three-day Polit Bureau/Central Committee meeting.

Endorsing the Polit Bureau stand on the United Progressive Alliance government on various issues, the Central Committee said the party must take them up "more assertively" and work with other parties who agree with it, both inside and outside Parliament.

Briefing the media on the deliberations, he said the Central Committee condemned the BJP's attempts to "foment communal tensions" by taking out two yatras around the country. The people have experienced the "cynical and sectarian politics" behind such moves in the past and the BJP should realise that communal politics would not find popular support.

It noted that in the BJP-ruled States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and in Orissa, where the party is in the coalition, communal outfits were being encouraged to target minorities and these State Governments continued to promote communalisation of educational and other institutions.

Hopes of a seventh term

On the political front, the Central Committee expressed confidence that the Left Front would return to power in West Bengal for the seventh term. As regards Kerala, he said, the State Committee would meet this week to finalise seats and other related issues. Mr. Karat and Polit Bureau member S. Ramachandran Pillai would attend a meeting of the State Secretariat and State Committee this week.

As regards the CBI probe in the SNC-Lavalin case, he said the decision of the UDF Government on the eve of the election was a "patently political move to implicate CPI (M) State Secretary who was also a Polit Bureau member."

He said the UDF Government had earlier entrusted the probe with the State vigilance department and as its report did not serve its interest, the Government decided to refer it to the CBI.Some of the steps by the Election Commission, he said, were "neither reasonable" nor would they strengthen the democratic processes. It is not understandable how citizens who utilise their houses for graffiti or putting up of flags and banners can be prevented to do so.

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