MADRAS: The CPI(M) Congress did adopt, as expected a political resolution on Sunday committing itself to mass struggle against the ‘new economic policy but leaving it still unclear whether the party ‘would contribute its might wo voting out the Narasimha Government

‘Whether the CPI(M) leadership would take the initiative to pull down government which it loathed so deeply was a question that lingered in the air after Harkishan Singh Subject briefed newspersons about the business transacted in the congress in the course of the day.

‘When a question was posed with a prefatory remark that the CPI(M) had decided to vote out the government which was following such dangerous policies that compromised India’s economic sovereignty, Sujit was quick to clarify that he had not said that the govt would be ‘voted out. What he had wanted to say, he clarified, was merely that the CPIGM) would fight the policy of the government outside and inside Parliament, even to the extent of voting against it.

‘Whether his party was determined only to vote against the govt but not to contribute its strength to voting it out of office was a question ‘which he CPI(M) leader did not choose to answer directly. Surjeet said his party would vote against the policy when it came to that and it could ‘not care less about whatever happened to the government. That was. ‘Narasimha Rao’s botheration.

Surjeet did not like to choose between the Congress (I) and the Bharatiya Janata Party at this juncture, Asked which his party regarded as the main enemy between those two forces the CPI(M) leader said ‘both were equally bad. As such, there could be no concentration of attack on one other exclusion of the other, The Congress would adopt ‘separate resolution on the economic onslaughts.

‘During the discussion, some delegates emphasized that the Bharatiya Janata Party was being backed by a section of the big bourgeoisie ‘which wanted it to emerge as an alternative its pro monopolist and port and lord policies, they said, should be ‘exposed as much as its communal platform.

Article extracted from this publication >> January 17, 1992