Congress to suffer: CPM’s Ma Baby as grand old party decides to contest Bengal polls alone

New decision:congress “The people of India will suffer,” Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA Baby warned on the party’s decision not to fight the West Bengal assembly elections with the Left alliance. He said the Congress leadership should explore possibilities with the Left to intensify the fight to exclude the BJP-RSS. The Congress Party and the Left Front had contested elections together in 2021. CPMThe Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), which has witnessed its decline in the state, is optimistic about improving its position as the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation has joined the polls with the Left Front this time and some smaller left groups are also expected to join. The general secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya believes that if they unite, they will be able to fight a good war.“The CPM Politburo appeals to the people of West Bengal to defeat the authoritarian, anti-women and anti-poor rule of the TMC and the communal rule.” bjp By voting for the Left Front,” the party said in a statement.Babi also rejected claims by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the state of Kerala has been renamed as Kerala due to the growing alliance between the BJP and the CPM. “From today, the alliance is no longer unwritten,” Banerjee said after the federal cabinet agreed to the name change.Babi said the CPM and other Left parties are fighting hard in Kerala to stop the entry of the BJP. He went on to remind that Banerjee joined the New Democratic Alliance government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1999 and served as Railway Minister.He made the remarks at a briefing after the CPM politburo meeting, which addressed numerous issues, including the need to explore the possibility of an alliance with members of the Indian bloc to defeat the BJP. The leadership also reviewed the states of Kerala, West Bengal, tamil naduAssam and Puducherry.Babi said that Kerala has a CPM-led government and the party’s poll campaign will be led by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The party also plans to take a decision on finalizing the list of candidates by the end of the first week of March. “In Kerala, despite constant efforts by the BJP-led alliance government to stifle the LDF government, it has performed best by focusing on eradicating extreme poverty, being the first state in the country to do so, improving public health and education, ensuring protection of workers’ rights, and regular supply of essential commodities through the public development system,” the CPM said in a statement. The Left Party claimed that the Democratic Alliance led by the Congress Party was mobilizing huge amounts of money and gathering support from various sectarian forces. “It is playing a destructive role in and outside the Assembly by coordinating with the BJP. The BJP is also trying to expand in the state by driving communal divisions. Both these forces must be defeated,” it said. “We appeal to the people to re-elect the DMK alliance to thwart communal conspiracy and strengthen the secular tradition of the country,” the party said.In the Assam polls, the CPM alleged that the BJP was running a fervent communal and divisive campaign and hoped to benefit from it. “Considering the larger interests of the people of Assam, it is the Congress’s responsibility as the largest opposition party to ensure that anti-BJP votes are not split and the BJP is not defeated,” the Left Party stressed.