The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), a constituent of the United Democratic Front (UDF), has said that the coalition had lost the election because it had failed to gauge the intense communal polarisation.
Despite its latent dissatisfaction at the bitter outcome of the election, the RSP leadership decided to stay put in the UDF. The party expressed the confidence that it would continue to be in the limelight and would come back into reckoning soon
The RSP state secretariat, which met here on Tuesday, also felt that the UDF could not survive the series of corruption charges against ministers.
The government’s failure to address problems faced by traditional industrial sectors, including cashew, was responsible for the electoral debacle, RSP State secretary A.A. Azeez said here soon after a meeting of the State secretariat.
The RSP said that the UDF failed to counter the CPI(M)’s communal propaganda that the minority communities would be safe only under the LDF dispensation.
