After successive debacles in Lok Sabha and other polls, senior CPI(M) leaders today began discussing the party's organisational report which outlines drawbacks that have led to such electoral performance and the reasons for fissures within.
The discussion was taken up after a section of the CPI(M) Central Committee felt no political-tactical line would work if the organisation was not strong enough, party sources said.
The almost 100-member Central Committee, which began a crucial 4-day meeting here yesterday, was earlier debating an official draft political document and a counter moved by Politburo member Sitaram Yechury, reflecting differences over how to come out of the political morass.
Asked about Yechury's "alternative" note, senior CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia said there was "no alternative note. There is nothing unprecedented about it. There are so many notes which have been moved. Every party member has a right to put forth his or her views in this democratic forum. All views are being discussed here".
Acharia also said the final document emerging out of this debate, would "represent all the views" and the Party Congress, slated in April 2015, would take a final decision.
Another CPI(M) leader said, "We are discussing different political lines and there is nothing individual as is being focused by the media. We will let you know after the discussion is over."
At the Central Committee's brainstorming session yesterday, Yechury had placed a five-page report which is understood to be supportive of the line adopted at the CPI(M)'s Jalandhar Congress in 1978.
As per this line, CPI(M) was to take the lead in forming broad non-Congress, anti-BJP forum of secular, democratic parties.
Apparently, it blames the faulty implementation of this line over the last decade, during the tenure of General Secretary Prakash Karat, for the drastic decline in CPI(M)'s national strength.
