Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s candidature from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency has riled the Left parties. They believe that it is a ploy by the party to queer the pitch for the Left in the upcoming elections.
The CPI(M)’s central committee has its task cut out to defeat the BJP alliance, increase the strength of the CPI(M) and the Left Front (all communist parties) in the Lok Sabha, and to ensure that an alternative secular government is formed , a CPI(M) communiqué said
While the CPI(M) politburo referred to late Somnath Chatterjee as a veteran parliamentarian, eminent lawyer, former Speaker and ten-time member of the Lok Sabha, the Bengal unit referred to him as a “comrade” and “former central committee member and Lok Sabha MP of the CPI(M)”.