CPI National Executive, which met here yesterday, held a preliminary review of the elections on the basis of a brief note prepared by General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy, a party statement said today.
The committee has asked all state units to review the poll results and send their reports by mid-June, to enable the National Council to further analyse the situation and draw appropriate lessons when it meets from June 20 to 22, it said.
Observing that Left parties had suffered a serious setback, it had also said the elections had witnessed "unparallelled money power and malpractices", though CPI and the Left fought these elections "on the basis of principles and policies."
"There is a need for introspection. There is a need to rejuvenate and rework the functions and strategy of the party and the Left in the emerging situation," it had said.
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"The people are ruthless in punishing the parties which betray their trust. The results are clear expression of the peoples' anger against the Congress misrule. In the absence of an alternative, BJP took the advantage and gained a massive victory," CPI had said.
The total number of MPs of these two Left parties have fallen from 24 in the 15th Lok Sabha to 10 now, including nine of CPI(M), rendering them virtually politically irrelevant in the House. RSP and Forward Bloc, which had two MPs each in the previous Lok Sabha, have nil representation now.