CPM to form a new front: Karat

The session comes ahead of the party’s 20th Congress scheduled for April in Kozhikode.

Karat also said: “Talks are on with non-Congress secular parties in several states (for forming the Left and Democratic Front). There are at least four parties,including Biju Janata Dal,AIADMK,Janata Dal (Secular) and Telegu Desham Party,” the Marxist leader added.

Karat also said discussions were on for a CPI-CPM merger. “We are discussing the issues that need to be sorted out for the merger. A strong coordination is needed.”

The central committee meeting finalised the draft of the ideological resolution and the political

resolution that will be put in public domain this month-end.

The political resolution has called for fighting the “neo-liberal policies of the UPA government and mobilising various sections of the working people who are affected by these policies adversely”.

The “Resolution on Some Ideological Issues”,adopted by the central committee,“addresses the current and prolonged crisis of global capitalism and its impact on both the developed capitalist countries and the developing countries.”

On the performance of Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal,Karat expressed concern over farmers’ suicide in the state and added that these were indications of Mamata Banerjee’s”misrule”.

“This (farmers’ suicide) reflects not only on the Central policies which have resulted in the agrarian crisis,but also a gross failure of the state government to put in place a procurement machinery to purchase crops from the farmers,” he added. He alleged that the government had dismantled the procurement machinery to buy crops set up by the previous Left Front government.