Yechuri bats for Communist unity and he should be supported.
Would we see an united Communist Party in India after united Janta Pariwar?
Palash Biswas
Palash Biswas
We have seen Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet,the exact personality to understand the new comrade General Secretary.
Yechuri is known to be very close to Bengal Comrades who might not forgive comrade Prakash Karat for his ideological adventure ending honeymoon with Congress.Bengali comrades hold comrade Prakash Karat responsible for TMC Cong alliance to end Left rule in Bengal.
We may not know at present how Yechuri plans to unite communists with the merger of CPIM and CPI.
We also may not know how he should behave with other communists specifically who oppose the revisionist line of Parliamentary Politics.
But as a nation we,the people should support such an intiative as it may turn to be game changer in resistance to corporate, zionist, f scist global Hindu Imperialism.
Yechuri has always been very very liberal and contrarily to comrade Surjeet he is much more elite in Parliamentary Politics.
If he is interested only in vote bank equation and power politics the fate of communist unity ,I am afraid ,would be identical as the that of Jnata merger which may be broken any time if RSS strike some deal with some one or the other.
Since 1991,the communists in India have been doing nothing to address the basic problems despite having monopoly in trade unions,women`s,student`s Peasants organisation just because the leadership had not the political will and maintained peace with the centre to get their governments in Bengal,Kerala and Tripura going on, giving up ideology as well as the basic commitment at the cost of the victimized, displaced, suffering ,excluded,untouchable masses subjected to continuous persecution and an infinite holocaust.So much so that the Nation has become a valley of death.
I have no doubt that he should succeed in Parliamentary politics,but we have to see whether he takes any initiative for resistance against racial apartheid,mass destruction,economic ethnic cleansing and cent percent Hindu ImperialismLet us see.
The merger of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India will certainly happen in future though there is no time-frame for it, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said here on Sunday after being elected as the party's new general secretary.
Yechury was unanimously elected to the top post at the party's 21st national congress which concluded here today. He is the fifth person to hold the post.After days of speculation and in a nail biting finish rare for the CPI(M), politburo member Sitaram Yechury was on Sunday elected the new general secretary of the party on the last day of the party congress.
Consensus emerged on Yechury after the other frontrunner S Ramachandran Pillai withdrew from the race.Sources say outgoing general secretary Prakash Karat advised Pillai to do so after Yechury's supporters in the central committee insisted on a vote. Sources say numbers were in Yechury's favour.
However,the party has never had an election for the post of general secretary who has always been picked through consensus. The party constitution, however, does provide for a secret ballot in case of voting.
"Merger is still on cards. But, the first issue is to strengthen our party, based on which work for the unity of Left forces is to be undertaken, and again based on which mobilising Left and democratic forces together will be done," Yechury told reporters after his elevation.
"There is no time-frame for the merger. But we are trying for the merger to happen at the earliest. It may take two months or six months. But it will happen definitely and that is our determination and also promise," the 62-year-old leader said.
Replying to a query on the challenges before him, he said the challenges are to strengthen the party, building the unity of Left forces, and bringing the Left and democratic forces together.
"Our priority will be on how to move forward on the basis of our struggle against the economic policies that are imposed resulting in greater burden on our people, and the communal ideology which is dividing our country and the people," the new general secretary of CPI(M) said.
The party today also elected 91 members of its central committee, besides five special invitees and as many permanent invitees (in the central committee). It also elected the 16-member politburo team to lead the party for next three years.
Earlier, addressing the CPI(M) meet, Yechury said this is the congress of future, future of our party and our country.
Indian Express reports:
Somnath Chatterjee, a former communist and Speaker of the Lok Sabha during the Congress led UPA- II government on Sunday welcomed the unanimous appointment of Sitaram Yechury as the new all India general secretary of the party.
"The new team will bring in a breath of fresh air," said Chatterjee who was expelled from the CPM by the politburo when Prakash Karat was the party general secretary over the civil nuclear issue and Chatterjee's reluctance to step down from the post of the Speaker at the diktat of the party politburo in July 2008.
Talking to the Indian Express, the former Speaker said, "I am no more in the party. But I continue to be a well wisher of the Communist party. I have seen the new formation of the committee with induction of new faces into the politburo as well as the central committee.
It is an important day for the CPM party which should now be breathing in some fresh air. There should be much enthusiasm and an open minded approach to deal with the problems that the CPM party is facing," said Chatterjee.
Referring to Sitaram Yechury's appointment, Chatterjee showered praises saying,"Yechury was far more acceptable to all quarters than anyone else. He had the political acumen to deal with varied political outfits and personalities and had the political maturity to lead the party to greater heights.
He would be truly a cementing factor in the party and bring in positivity. People in general would find in him a vastly acceptable leader."
"Unfortunately, the CPM party had landed into a political quicksand of steady decline. It had fallen into a vicious circle of stagnation and status quo. I congratulate Yechury on his nomination to this new post along with the new team members like young and enterprising Md. Salim and experienced Hannan Mollah who had the capability to bring in the much needed changes in the party," said Chatterjee.
Sadly, the Left movement in the country had become very weak and there was no one who could have communicated with the working class, the peasants and farmers. "The CPM's acceptability and credibility had suffered severe erosions during the earlier period. The new committee will definitely be able to arrest that slide and bring in positive changes," said Chatterjee. "There is new hope," he added.
A comrade for over 40 years, Chattejee's ouster from the CPM had caused serious repercussions in the West Bengal CPM with top most state leaders disapproving of the action.
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