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Buddhadeb skips politburo meet in New Delhi | West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee didn’t attend the politburo meet of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) which commenced here on Saturday after the party’s defeat in West Bengal’s civic body polls. Senior CPI-M leaders including
party’s General Secretary Prakash Karat, and other polit bureau members Brinda
Karat, Biman Bose, Manik Sarkar, MK Pandhe and Sitaram Yechury participated in
the discussions which will resume on Sunday. Bhattacharjee was conspicuous by
his absence. Yechury, a politburo member, denied the two-day politburo meet would
introspect on the party''s dismal show in the recent civic polls held in West
Bengal. "We will come back to you with what we have decided. There was a preliminary
report on the municipal elections in West Bengal but the politburo decided that
it would go into a review of these elections after the state committee makes its
review. The state committee is to make its review during this month and once that
is done, the politburo would go into that matter," he said. The agenda of the
meet is to discuss the preparations for the extended Central Committee meeting
to be held in Vijayawada city in August. Party Secretary Biman Bose brushed aside
media reports that the civic body polls were a precursor to the state polls next
year. "We do not believe in concepts of semi-final and final. We are not sportsmen,
and elections are not a sport. Those who take part in elections are not playing
a game," chided Bose. In the municipal elections held across West Bengal on Sunday
(May 30), the regional Trinamool Congress party snatched the Kolkata Municipal
Corporation from the Left Front and trounced the Marxists in most of the 80 other
state municipalities. In last year''s April/May parliamentary polls, the Communists
won just 24 seats, down from its score of 60 in the earlier house. West Bengal,
which has been ruled by the Left Front since 1977, is going to the polls in 2011
to elect a new 294-member assembly. |
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