CPM will analyse WB panchayat poll results: Basu

Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday refused to comment on the CPI-M's performance in West Bengal panchayat elections.

Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday refused to comment on the CPI-M’s performance in West Bengal panchayat elections.

The CPI-M lost control of East Midanpur zila parishad, where trouble-torn Nandigram is located, to the Trinamool Congress.

Basu said that details of the poll results had started reaching the state party headquarters in Kolkata and the CPI(M)’s district units have been asked to submit reports within a month.

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The CPI-M’s state committee will analyse the results, he said.

Basu, who attended a meeting of the party’s state secretariat, was asked by reporters whether he was disappointed at the reverses suffered by his party in the rural belt.

The TC also defeated CPI-M in three zilla parishad seats in Singur, the site of Tata Motors’ small car plant.

The Left Front also lost almost half of the gram panchayat seats to the Opposition.

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