The Congress has the same class character as that of the BJP and it represents the interests of the big bourgeois-landlord classes, according to the CPI(M)’s draft political resolution , which was made public on Tuesday.
The draft resolution was adopted at the meeting of the Central Committee in Kolkata last month after a heated debate and a vote, in which general secretary Sitaram Yechury found himself on the losing side.
The eight-point political line interestingly calls for “appropriate electoral tactics to maximise the pooling of the anti-BJP votes.” But this has to be within the confines of the political line, which bars any “understanding or electoral alliance with the Congress.”
The line was adopted after the debate. It does give an elbow room for adjusting the party’s stand close to the elections.
‘Won’t dilute stand’
However, the hard-liners insist that the “no-understanding” with the Congress precludes this line and does not dilute that stand. “Our stand can be concretised only at the time of elections. And every State election is different,” a Polit Bureau member said.
Interestingly, the document discusses the Congress in more detail than the BJP. The party insiders, however, say it is because the question before the Central Committee was to ally with Congress or not.
It also questions Congress’s secular credentials. It, however, concludes that the main threat is the BJP, “given its basic link to the RSS.”
Justifying the party’s alliance with the DMK in Tamil Nadu, the document says the party needs to work closely with regional parties which are not in alliance with the BJP.
