CPM Congress Endorses Morden, Realistic & Reform Approachs

Change is the Constant. Finally Comrades also feel the heat of changing dynamics of world.

The CPM is finally getting real and Ready for Modern-day governance. CPM Congress at Coimbatore Endorses Morden, Realistic & Reform Approachs.

In an admission that obstructionist politics will not take the party anywhere, the CPM has conceded the need to play the game of governance according to the rules.

Need of Change:

The CPM, which debated the party’s 50 years of governance experience in the states at its Coimbatore congress, has said that it cannot any longer see government as a “tool for people’s struggle and mass mobilisation”. In a significant shift in approach, the CPM admitted that “people in the three Left bastions cannot be told to wait indefinitely for their problems to be addressed till a change takes place at the all-India level.” In other words, it’s high time that the CPM and the governments run by it internalised the grammar of modern-day governance and its attendant requirements.

This is a victory of sorts for West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and other pragmatists in the party. The ‘puritans’ in the CPM have been attempting to stall every reform-oriented measures of Left-controlled states citing ideological issues. CPM-run Kerala has been the worst sufferer as chief minister V S Achuthanandan has been backing outdated views on economic issues.

Given this context, the CPM’s latest position will insulate Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the reform-minded in the Kerala government. Mr Bhattacharjee and a section of the leadership argued that policy isolationism will further slow down the economic progress and development of party-run states. They also argued that free hand that other state governments have in policy issues have been helping to make impressive strides.

The Real Time Issues:

The West Bengal chief minister also succeeded in getting the party’s endorsement for the SEZ policy. “This is a policy which is already being implemented and the bulk of the SEZs sanctioned so far have been in five states. But while opposing the SEZ Act and rules, we cannot expect the Left-led states not to have SEZs. Some SEZs have been already sanctioned in West Bengal.

The Smart City project will also have SEZ status. We can limit the size of the land to be given and insist on land use. But the tax concessions are in the hands of the central government.

It is for these tax sops that the IT companies and others are setting up SEZs. It will not be possible for Left-led states to prohibit SEZs till the time basic changes can be accomplished at the all-India level,” the party document said.

The fact that this approach has found place in the party’s ‘holy document’ — the political-organisational report — is certain to deny the rival side an opportunity to claim ‘ideological sanction’ for its protests. The CPM’s backing for pragmatists will also force smaller Left parties like CPI to fall in line.But the recent Hyderabad congress of the CPI had taken a strident anti-SEZ stand.

The Outcome:

The report presented by Mr Karat also spokes about the need for a realistic approach. “The entire party has to understand the role played by CPM-led governments and the constraints they face. Failure to do so leads to exaggerated expectations. In a situation where the three states are advanced outposts and where the party and the Left have been unable to advance the forward building of the Left and Democratic Front, it is unrealistic to expect the Left-led governments to initiate any basic changes,” the report said.

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