Karat may face pressure to quit
CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat may face the pressure to step down from his post when the party congress takes place in Kozhikode in April next year
The CPI(M) central committee, meanwhile, will meet in Kolkata next month to discuss the political line and strategy before it is finalised at the congress
The party congress will take stock of the electoral debacle in West Bengal after 32 years and defeat in Kerala and is expected to rework its political strategy
Indicating a shift in the political strategy following the electoral debacle in Bengal and Kerala, the sources said that instead of going in for mere electoral alliances, the party would focus on playing an independent role, making political interventions on major issues and organising united actions with Left and democratic forces, besides taking steps to strengthen its own mass base across the country
Sources disclosed that senior party pleader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has not been able to attend the meetings in New Delhi, thus paving the way for the venue of the forthcoming central committee meet to be shifted to Kolkata
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