CALCUTTA: The Post Ayodhya dilemma within the West Bengal Congress on whether to regard the CPM or the BJP as its main enemy seems to have assumed serious proportions. The confusion, ifany thing, has only worsened with the decision of former WBPCC chief Priya Ranjan Das Munshi to air his views in public.
Das Munshi apparently took the PCC chief, Somen Mitra, and hig Cohorts to task at a fast meeting on Gandhi’s martyrdom day for not declaring that in the light of the changed political scenario, their principal battle would now be with the BJP, “First the country, then politics” he is reported to have Said, adding that he didn’t know why the leadership was, hesitant over the issue.
Das Munshi said that, though, he was no loss under enemy of the CPM, the need of the hour was to fight the “communal forces” led by the BJP. In any case, not much could be gained by demanding Chief Minister Jyoti Basu’s resignation every six months, and then Promptly going back to sleep.A pertinent point raised by Das Munshiin thisconnection was that fighting the CPM would be ineffective if the Congress was browbeaten by the BJP on the national stage. What Possibly annoyed him was that none of his Party colleagues had supported his demand that former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh not be allowed to hold a city rally on Feb.2.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 5, 1993
