Click to play videoCoimbatore: Usually reserved for superstars like Rajinikanth and Ajith, Coimbatore’s poster and hoarding space has been taken over by the CPI-M's 19th party congress.
The five-day meet will chalk out the political trajectory the party will adopt over the next three years and there is expected to a fair amount of UPA bashing, especially with inflation touching new highs.
But the party's assessment that they cannot adopt a policy of equi-distance from the Congress and the BJP will come as music to the Congress's ears.
CNN-IBN has learnt that even then the party will reiterate its quest to form a third alternative.
“Communalism is a major danger and we would like to have a secular government. At the same time, we also want a non-Cong, anti-BJP third alternative,” said CPM leader Sitaram Yechury.
The CPM may not form a national pre-poll alliance but will tie up with like-minded parties at the state level and will be willing to prop up a Congress government again, if need be, to keep the BJP at bay.
Additionally, the party congress will devote an entire day to create a framework for governance for the three states where they are in power
This, sources say, is to avoid what happened in Nandigram which the party admits has been a political and administrative failure
Said CPI-M’s Brinda Karat, “We will include a discussion on a review and our assessment of the alternative policies for Left front government.”
But what's of political significance is CPM's encouragement of SP that it shed its anti-Congress-ism.
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