General secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) T.J. Chandrachoodan on Tuesday said there was a mass exodus of Communist Party of India (Marxist) cadre to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal.
Inaugurating the RSP-RSP(B) reunion conference, Prof. Chandrachoodan said the CPI(M) had become so weak that the party was unable to protect its workers from the onslaught of the Trinamool Congress. The party workers felt that only the BJP was now in a position to protect them. The RSP leader said the CPI(M) was ideologically bankrupt. “Is today’s CPI(M) the same party which had been led by stalwarts such as AKG, EMS, and Nayanar.” The present leadership had converted the CPI(M) into a bourgeois party. “The Left ideology remains on the side of the have-nots. But the CPI(M) has shed this ideology. People view a party through its leaders. But the people view the present CPI(M) leaders of the State with fear.”
“The CPI(M) is betraying the working class, people, and even democracy,” Prof. Chandrachoodan said. The CPI(M) leadership of the Left was destroying that movement.
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Prof. Chandrachoodan said he would not deny the fact that the Congress was not overboard on the issue of corruption, which he said was the main reason for its rout in the Lok Sabha election.
“All this warrants a rethink on the Left movement. In this connection, the RSP moots a broad left movement sans the CPI(M). The party plans a plenum in this connection in December,” he said.