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Finishing his morning campaign across Falta under Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, 34-year-old Pratikur Rehman gets down from the open jeep in which he had been accompanied by state CPI(M) secretary Md Salim and state Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy.
A month after the CPI(M)-led LDF suffered a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala, the party’s central leadership has identified the “erosion” of a section of its vote base in favour of the BJP as one of the most serious issues facing it. The Left failed to pay “sufficient attention” to this, a review of the Lok Sabha results by the CPI(M)’s Central Committee says.
Stung by its rout in the recent Lok Sabha elections in Kerala, the ruling CPI(M) has started going after the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) – a constituent of the Congress-led UDF – alleging that the Congress’s ally has turned into the face of right-wing Muslim outfits in the state.
Finishing his morning campaign across Falta under Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, 34-year-old Pratikur Rehman gets down from the open jeep in which he had been accompanied by state CPI(M) secretary Md Salim and state Congress spokesperson Soumya Aich Roy.
On a hot day early this month, at Nabagram’s CPI(M) area committee office in the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, local party leader Sanjib Pandey went into a huddle with the Congress’s block president, Dhirendranath Yadav, and its anchal chief Sujoy Ghosh to discuss their poll strategies. Outside, the flags of both the parties fluttered in the summer wind.
A day after senior BJP leader Sobha Surendran dropped a bombshell, claiming that CPI(M) central committee member and Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener E P Jayarajan held discussions to join the BJP and withdrew the decision fearing a threat from his party, senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said labelled it as “bogus news”.
Opposite the huge grey bust of Lord Shiva on the western entrance of Mararikulam Mahadeva Temple, the front yard of a two-storey house of a local Congress supporter is dotted with the party workers in white khadis. They are busy arranging chairs, setting up microphones, and laying a red carpet on the grainy sands of the coastal region to welcome the leader they fondly call “KC”.
With the Indian Secular Front (ISF) deciding to go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls, the CPI(M) that was struggling to arrive at a consensus on the high-profile Diamond Harbour constituency has picked one of its promising youth leaders to take on Trinamool Congress (TMC) number two and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the incumbent MP.