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In the aftermath of the Lok Sabha poll debacle for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala, the churning continues. On Thursday, the CPI came out strongly against the young wing of senior partner CPI(M), the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), over incidents of violence at college campuses.
CPI National Council member, the party’s Kerala Secretary and a former Rajya Sabha MP, Binoy Viswam has led the criticism against senior partner CPI(M) over several issues since the Left Democratic Front suffered a second successive rout in the state in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The editor of New Age, a weekly published by the CPI, Viswam warned the CPI(M) Thursday that unless it reins in its students’ body SFI, which is accused of several incidents of violence on campuses, it could become a “liability”.
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.
After a four-day review of the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) debacle in the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala, the CPI(M) on Thursday said the party failed to “grasp the attitude of people”. The party found that its prospects were affected after Muslims rallied behind the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) while the BJP made inroads into the Left’s traditional vote bank of backward Hindus.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Communist Party of India (CPI), and tribal parties Hamar Raj and Sarva Adi Dal, which were established last year and contested their first Lok Sabha elections, polled more votes than the BJP’s victory margins BJP over the Congress in the tribal reserved seats of Kanker and Bastar in Chhattisgarh.
In 1989, when the Indian People’s Front (IPF), which later became the CPI(M-L) Liberation, put up its best electoral performance ever and won two Lok Sabha seats, Bihar’s Arrah was one of them, then won by Rameshwar Prasad.
As the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala reaches its final lap, the writing seems to be on the wall for the ruling CPI(M), which is leading only in one of the 20 seats 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.