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Kerala CPI(M) to chalk out development plan

KANNUR: Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who has been elevated as Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has said the party State committee will chalk out an action plan in tune with the guidelines issued by the 19th Party Congress to make the CPI(M)-led governments in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura serve as a model for the entire country.

Addressing a meet-the-press organised by the Press Club here on Saturday, Mr. Balakrishnan said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government would take up development and welfare activities as part of the action plan. It would be discussed in the LDF for preparing an approach document. He said the Party Congress envisaged the emergence of a third alternative as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre was getting isolated from the people. Setbacks suffered by the Congress in the Assembly elections since the UPA government came to power indicated the people’s frustration, he said.

Left parties would formulate policies that would cater to the wishes of the secular and progressive forces for a third alternative. The Party Congress guidelines for the CPI(M)-led governments were part of an initiative to present them as a model, he said. He said he saw his election to the Polit Bureau as the party’s recognition of his political activities. He said he would work more for the betterment of the working class and the public.

To a question on factionalism in the CPI(M) in the State, Mr. Balakrishnan said the State unit of the party had been liberated from factionalism. The party was now going ahead on the basis of its adverse experiences as a result of groupism, he said.

Asked if the groupism that had existed in the party was ideological, the Minister said it had different dimensions.

On the third alternative, Mr. Balakrishnan said the party’s call for the third alternative was based on a clear political agenda and not any idea of election time alliance of parties. The third alternative had been envisaged as a movement and not just a coalition.

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