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Time not yet ripe for third front: CPI
Friday April 20, 2012 10:20:00 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The
Communist Party of India (CPI) Friday said the time was not yet
ripe for giving call for a third alternative comprising
non-Congress and non-BJP parties, but predicted a realignment of
forces with some of the regional parties leaving the two leading
coalitions.
Addressing a media meet here, new CPI General Secretary Suravaram
Sudhakar Reddy stressed on developing a programme-based
alternative to the economic policies being pursued by the central
government.
"We don't want to give a call (for a third front). I don't think
the time is ripe for such a call now. 2014 is still two years
away. What we need now is a programme-based alternative, … which
parties will accept change of economic policies. We have to see if
such an alternative is possible before 2014 or beyond," Reddy told
mediapersons here.
Predicting a realignment of forces, Reddy said some of the
regional parties now with the Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) or with the National Democratic Alliance headed by
the BJP would come out of the groupings.
"Some of the friendly parties are with us. And some that are now
with the two alliances will come out, leading to a possible
realignment of forces that can come through people's agitation."
He conceded that the defeat of the left forces in West Bengal and
Kerala has reduced their capacity to intervene in national
politics.
However, Reddy referred to the "stinking corruption" in both the
UPA and NDA, and issues like rights of proletariat and land to the
tillers, rising unemployment, failure of the government's
"so-called attempts to carry out reforms with a human face" have
set the stage for a people's agitation to be led by the left and
democratic forces.
He said the CPI would make all out efforts to make a breakthrough
in the Hindi belt. "Without a strong presence in the Hindi belt we
cannot intervene in the national politics substantially," he said.
On the issue of reunification of the two Communist parties - CPI
and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) - Reddy said it
was being debated for one and a half decades.
"CPI is for reunification of the Communist movement. But it does
not depend on the CPI alone. At the same time we don't want to
make it a point of controversy. We want to take up programmes that
will bring the cadres of the both parties together that will
ultimately lead to unification".
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