Click to play videoCoimbatore: Prakash Karat was on Thursday re-elected General Secretary of the CPI-M for the next three years by the 19th Party Congress in Coimbatore. Speaking on the occasion, CPI-M also signalled the political course it was likely to adopt and said that the time was ripe for a Third Front.
“It may have an electoral component but I am not sure whether we can make this straight away into an electoral alliance or not,” Karat said.
That may be good news for Congress but the CPI-M is not letting up the pressure just yet.
Price rise will still be the major focus for the next few months. And after having successfully blocked the nuke deal, the party wants to build on what it says are its gains on the foreign policy front.
“There is a very clear direction from the Congress that we should pursue our efforts to see that our foreign policy is genuinely an independent policy,” Karat added.
The party's new politburo has three new faces. One of them is Minister of Industries (West Bengal) Nirupam Sen, who is expected to toe the state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s line that demands economic reforms and greater industrialisation.
In effect, the party has struck a clever balance between the two — it has largely accepted the economic policies pursued by Bhattacharjee and gone along with Prakash Karat's foreign policy views, especially on the Indo-US nuke deal
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