The hope that the elevation of Sitaram Yechury as general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] will brighten the prospects of that party is only a delusion, Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) has said.
T.L. Santhosh, RMP State committee chairman, and N. venu, secretary, said in a statement said here on Saturday that the CPI (M)’s exhortation of a Left unity was a tactics to throw dust in the eyes of the public.
The CPI (M) had used a criminal gang to kill RMP leader T.P. Chandrasekharan one month after former general secretary Prakash Karat called for a unity of Left parties at the 20th Party Congress in Kozhikode in April 2012.
They said a convict in the murder of Chandrasekharan was inducted into the area committee of that party.
Clear message
The CPI (M) also gave a clear message to the people by making P. Mohanan, who was named as the 14th accused in Chandrasekharan’s murder, as the district secretary, they said.
The RMP leaders said Mr. Yechury would further attempt to drag the CPI (M) into the rightwing fold. He would forge a unity with the Congress in West Bengal, they said.