After the recent central committee meeting of the party, General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has said the party will seek the cooperation of all "democratic forces" in West Bengal to strengthen people's unity in the state to defeat the Trinamool Congress and isolate the BJP and their machinations.
Though the CPI(M) leadership played down the move to cooperate with Congress in West Bengal, party leaders in Kerala will have to explain the context that forced it to take the stand in the eastern state.
"We are trying to strengthen democratic forces to foilcommunal polarisation by the BJP and oust autocratic Trinamool Congress regime in West Bengal," he said.
Apparently under pressure from the Kerala unit, the central committee's position on West Bengal tie-up is couched in such a way that the party considers it "essential" to unite all democratic forces to oust Trinamool Congress headed by Mamata Banerjee, seeking to avoid any direct reference of an open alliance with the Congress.
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The party said its time tested position that Congress and CPI(M) are on same page had been vindicated with the recent decision of the CPI(M) central committee.
"CPI(M) is exposed. They had been bluffing people of this country for quite some time. There is no difference between them and Congress. They should now explain to the people if they still oppose economic policies of Congress.
Dismissing views that the political line of the party in
"Our electoral prospects in Kerala are not going to be affected by the political line. We are adopting West Bengal to oust the Trinamool Congress government and prevent the BJP gaining foothold there", Balagopal told