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FTN: Left Front's moment of crisis
Published on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:16, Updated on Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 07:07 in Politics section
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In the recent Lok Sabha Assembly by-polls, the Left Front faced some major defeats. While in West Bengal the Left Front managed to win one out of the 10 seats, in Kerala it lost all the three seats. After these successive poll losses Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's Cabinet colleagues told him on Wednesday that the party should prepare to sit in the Opposition as the people have lost faith in communism. They suggested Bhattacharjee to call for early polls before the margins of defeat become even wider.
This brings us to the question of the day that was asked on CNN-IBN show Face The Nation: Calls for Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to resign: Is the Left in India facing oblivion?
To try and answer the question on the panel of experts were: CPI-M leader Nilotpal Basu; Editor-in-Chief The Pioneer; Chandan Mitra; Trinamool Congress spokesperson Derek O'Brien and National Affairs Editor CNN-IBN Diptosh Majumdar.
At the start of the show, 87 per cent of those who voted in said yes, the Left in India is facing oblivion while 13 per cent disagreed.
Bad Times For Left Front
Opening the debate, Nilotpal Basu said that of the 10 seats that went to polls in West Bengal seven were already with the Congress-Trinamool combine.
“Victory and defeat are a part of a democratic country. The Constitution is there to decide how long a government can be on in a state,” he said.
“If the people give their verdict we will definitely not act as a limpid and go. Elections do not decide the final future of a political party,” Basu said defending his party.
Reacting to Basu’s explanation, Derek O'Brien said that the CPI-M is in a complete denial mood.
He alleged that the Left Front has “butchered the state” for the last 32 years and said in their governance “the police force, the education system, the health system etc. were in disarray”.
“The Left has lost all its credibility in these elections,” O'Brien said.
Basu objected to O'Brien’s allegations and said he is completely rubbishing the history.
“For the last 32 years people have voted us to power years after years because of our good track record,” he emphasised.
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