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Open criticism by partners will weaken Front: Basu

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Warning: CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu (left) and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at the party State Committee meeting in Kolkata on Saturday.

Kolkata: CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu on Saturday said the Left Front was being weakened by the tendency of the constituents like Forward Bloc and RSP to air their grievances in public.

Talking to reporters after the CPI(M) state committee meeting, he said “this is not to my liking… open criticism like what was being done by some of the Front partners will only strengthen the hands of the Opposition. The Front will not gain. But it will not break up either… that question does not arise.”

He was replying to queries whether the Front would disintegrate in the wake of frequent criticism of the CPI(M)’s functioning made by the smaller constituents.

The senior statesman told reporters that CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose was trying to sort out the differences, “ but I do not know what will be the outcome. Biman is trying sincerely.”

The committee considered the draft report prepared after the district-level meetings ahead of the party’s State-level convention.

Of late, especially in the wake of the Nandigram issue, the constituents had become vocal in their criticism of their “elder brother,” the CPI(M), at one point even encouraging Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee to launch a united front against the CPI(M).

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