Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 27
CPM chief Sitaram Yechury on Monday shifted blame of erosion in its base and poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections to the BJP.
“The electoral base of the CPM saw a big erosion in our strongholds,” said Yechury, while giving details on conclusion of three-day meeting of the Polit Bureau (PB).
The PB meet discussed the results of the elections in which the Left parties in all won five seats, including three by CPM and two by CPI. Other than a seat form the Left-ruled state of Kerala, both the parties won two each in Tamil Nadu.
The Left drew a blank in its traditional strongholds of West Bengal and Tripura. Yechury said the CPM’s central committee will hold a three-day session here, starting June 7, to discuss threadbare the reasons for the Left’s electoral debacle, and to formulate a plan for its revival. In the interregnum, the state units will meet to discuss the issue, and submit their reports to the party.
The dominant view expressed in the meeting was that the BJP outsmarted the opposition parties by successfully shifting the popular narrative during elections away from livelihood issues on which the NDA government had failed.
The narrative build around communal national jingoism, along with issues of fighting terrorism, brushed aside all other issues of day-to-day concerns of people. This was aided by the build-up of PM Narendra Modi’s persona.
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2HDnA2y
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