Though the ruling AIADMK was under attack from the public for the power crisis in the State and corruption, it tapped into the anti-incumbency wave against the Congress-led UPA at the Centre to win the Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(M) has concluded.
“While free flow of money, the use of government machinery and a multi-cornered contest worked in favour of the ruling party, it also benefitted from the implementation of some welfare schemes,” State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said, highlighting the resolution adopted at the two-day meeting of the State committee, which concluded here on Friday.
He said the Left parties were unable to convert into votes the goodwill they enjoyed among the people since they were under the impression that the AIADMK was the alternative to the anti-people Congress.
The meeting, attended by the party's general secretary, Prakash Karat, said the mobilisation of voters on the lines of religion and caste helped the BJP and the PMK win Kanyakumari and Dharmapuri. “It is a worrisome trend,” Mr. Ramakrishnan said.
He said the Left parties had formed a front with the AIADMK against the alliances led by both the BJP and the Congress.
But the change in the attitude of the AIADMK leadership and its subsequent decision to snap ties forced the Left parties to face the elections on their own.
“There was a hesitation on the part of the political parties in Tamil Nadu to campaign against the UPA’s anti-people policies and the BJP’s communal agenda. It was the Left parties that fervently exposed these two national parties. People will one day realise that there is hardly any difference between the two,” he said.
