CPI(M) Politburo to meet next month to debate political line

The CPI(M) politburo will meet next weekend to give final touches to the draft political resolution, which would assess the current situation to spell out its future strategy.
The resolution is a critical document, to be finalised at the party's 22nd Congress in April next year, which would spell out the political-tactical line which the CPI(M) would pursue for three years thereafter.
After two rounds of discussions in the politburo and its central committee last month, party general secretary Sitaram Yechury has prepared the draft political resolution, taking note of all points of view expressed by the party leaders.
When contacted, Yechury told PTI that this draft is being sent to all politburo members who will discuss it at a meeting on December 9 and 10.

Thereafter, the draft will be placed before a meeting of the larger body of the leadership, the central committee, in January next year.
"It is only after this that the CPI(M)'s political assessment of the current situation will be decided. On that basis, we shall chalk out our political tactical line," Yechury said, indicating that the strategy is not yet final.
The thrust of the CPI(M)'s thinking has been that the BJP-led government has unleashed a four-pronged attack - neo-liberal economic policies imposing greater miseries on the people; sharpening of communal polarisation; authoritarian attacks on democratic rights and undermining of parliamentary institutions; and India virtually becoming a junior strategic ally of US imperialism.

Taking note of the expansion of the BJP and, with it, the growth of "authoritarian and communal" forces, the party has been favouring wider cooperation with secular opposition parties in taking up specific issues inside and outside Parliament and to forge a wider unity for a broad platform against communalism.