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RSP for Left Front at national level

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KOLKATA: The State leadership of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is in favour of a “Left Front at the national level” rather than a third alternative as is being talked of by its bigger Left partner, the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

“At the Centre we are referred to merely as the four ‘Left parties’. Without the Left Front the third alternative will lack credibility and only be an opportunist alternative with an eye on the elections,” senior RSP leader Kshiti Goswami, told The Hindu here on Sunday.

He said that a Left Front ought to be formed at the national level on the lines of the ones that exist in West Bengal and Tripura. It would help consolidate the Left forces and provide a platform for all the Left parties to engage in discussions and work together.

Mr. Goswami was speaking a day after the conclusion of the three-day State conference of his party held in Bolpur.

It was resolved at the conference that no single party within the ruling Left Front in the State would assume a position from where it took unilateral decisions. “All decisions should be made collectively after discussions with the constituents of the Front,” he said.

Critical of CPI (M)

The RSP has been, in the past weeks, critical of the CPI (M) for taking what it has described as “unilateral” decisions on behalf of the Left Front. A “major partner” of the Left Front has become authoritarian and the RSP has protested against such an attitude, Mr. Goswami said, referring to the resolution passed at the conference.

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