CPM feels the pressure

The RSP8217;s withdrawal from the UPA-Left co-ordination committee has now put pressure on big brother CPIM to make its long-standing threat of pulling out of the Government real for the first time.

For the CPIM, post panchayat polls debacle, it is important to keep the Left Front partners together, especially the RSP. Since March 14, 2007, when 14 villagers were killed in Nandigram police firing, the rift between the RSP and the CPIM has widened. The RSP has blamed the CPIM of favouring capitalists in Bengal by using the state Government to protect their interest.

Left Front chairman and CPIM state secretary Biman Bose said, 8220;For the past two years, there has been no meetings of the UPA -Left coordination committee. Their decision to withdraw from the committee does not matter.8221;