By IANS,
Kolkata: Over three weeks after losing power in its erstwhile citadel of West Bengal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday said it will go back to the masses to rebuild its support base in the state.
“We have to deeply analyse the reasons for which people voted in favour of change. We have to keep one thing in mind. That is we have lost one battle but the war is not yet over. Our prime task at this moment is to go back to the people, to work amongst the people, to rebuild our relations with the common people and revamp ourselves,” CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said while addressing the party’s West Bengal unit meeting.
CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose voiced similar sentiments.
“We may have lost the election but everything is not lost. We have still managed 41 percent votes. We have to take along all the people who have supported us and have to bring back those people who have not voted in our favour. We have to strengthen the unity of Left Front,” Bose said.
The CPI-M led Left Front’s 34-year uninterrupted rule in the state came to an end last month when it was routed by the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine in the state assembly polls.