By IANS,
Kolkata : The Feb 14 assembly elections in Tripura and the country’s political scenario in general would be on the agenda of the three-day central committee meeting of the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) beginning here Thursday.
The polls in Tripura are crucial for the CPI-M, as this is the only state in the country where it is in power, as the main constituent of the Left Front.
The party lost in its other strongholds, West Bengal and Kerala, in 2011, thus slipping from its earlier prominent position in national politics.
The defeat in West Bengal to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance was particularly strong blow for the CPI-M, which had been in power in the state for 34 years at a stretch.
At the meeting beginning Thursday, the central committee would finalise the party’s campaign programmes and take stock of recent political developments in West Bengal, where the party has come under attack from ruling Trinamool Congress activists, CPI-M sources said.
Veteran CPI-M leader and former state minister Abdur Rezak Mollah was seriously injured when he was beaten up by Trinamool activists led by former legislator Arabul Islam.
The party leaders would deliberate on the progress of its ongoing signature campaign across the nation, with the demand for an effective Food Security Act.
The central committee would finalise the routes and itinerary of four jathas to be taken out from eastern, western, northern and southern parts of the country to highlight some of the party’s demands.
The jathas would culminate in Delhi, with a public meeting at the Ram Lila Maidan.