After the CPI(M), the central leadership of the CPI has also taken “moral and organisational” responsibility for the “miserable failure” of Left parties in the Lok Sabha elections.
A meeting of the CPI’s national council said the Left failed to build an all-India platform to project an alternative to the socio-economic programmes of the Congress and the BJP. The party said the corporate sector targeted the Left parties to isolate and marginalise them. “For this purpose, the regional parties were liberally financed,” CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy told reporters here after a two-day meeting.
The meeting also witnessed sharp criticism by council members against the functioning of the central leadership of the party. The leaders were under fire for decisions including selection of candidates and inability to build the organisation in States where it is weak. Reddy, however, said the responsibility is collective and the leadership did not discuss the possibility of any resignation at the top.
The review report of the national council said it was a massive anti-Congress negative vote that brought the BJP to power.
It said the vacuum created by the Congress was enough for the BJP to gain an absolute majority in Parliament.