New Delhi: Outlining its direction in view of the “changed” political situa-tion, CPI(M) on Wednesday marked fighting the “right wing” offensive by carrying out political and ideological struggle against BJP-RSS combine as its main task, while also ruling out any truck with Congress.
With the Left party facing major electoral rever-ses, its Draft Political Resolution, to be presented at the 21st congress at Visakhapatnam in April, also emphasised on building “independent” strength of the party, while working actively to rally other left and democratic secular forces to form a front for united action.
“The party has to fight against the BJP and Modi government’s policies. This is the main task at hand. This requires a concerted oppo-sition to Modi government’s economic policies and its Hindutva oriented social and educational policies. “The party has to conduct a political and ideological struggle against the BJP-RSS combine.
The fight against communalism cannot be conducted in isolation. It has to be integrated with the struggle against the neo-liberal policies and in defence of people’s liveli-hood,” the draft political resolution outlining the future political direction of the party said. The party said that it will work actively to rally the Left and democratic forces.
This, it said, can be done through the process of launching mass struggles and joint movements on the issues affecting people. “There has been a major change in the political situation of the country after Lok Sabha elections.
“This is fuelled by two forces. One by aggressive push for neo-liberal policies and second the offensive of the RSS led Hindutva for-ces. Together they consti-tute right wing offensive which is detri-mental for the interest of the people in our country,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters adding, that “the resolu-tion’s main direction is how to fight this right wing offensive”.(PTI)
