Putting the earlier Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government in the dock, the CPI(M) state committee, in the line of its central committee, finally acknowledged that the Left Front government’s pro-working and people’s priority image was damaged for a period.
“There was discontent among the people in some areas of development works due to the weakness of the government. Lack of co-ordination and inaction in administration was evident, at least during the last months of the government. A lot of work was undertaken in the last few years for furthering the interests of poor and working people. However, the lacunae were not fully corrected,” a review report of the party state committee has stated in the party mouthpiece.
In its recently concluded state committee meeting which was also attended by party general secretary Prakash Karat, the Marxist party reviewed the electoral performance and identified the reasons behind Left Front’s setback.
“The party had to bear responsibilities of all intrinsic deficiencies of a bourgeois administration. There was deficiency in people’s mobilisation. There were ever increasing demands from the people, but the party could not properly explain to people that all these aspirations could not be met due to inherent limitations of such a government. Sometimes, development activities get a narrow character ignoring general demands of the working people,” the report said, adding that the long tenure of the Left Front government and the stability had negatively affected the struggling capacity of the party and movement.
Significantly, the central committee earlier also pointed finger to the Buddhadeb-led administration. “The prolonged rule of the Left Front government for 34 years, has led to an accumulation of various negative factors which have impelled the people to vote for change. There were various shortcomings in the performance of the Left Front government in the recent years. Most of these shortcomings were noted during the LS election review.”