CPM trashes ‘Karat line’ for new path

New Delhi: Marred by serious differences over reasons that led to its decline and the way out, CPM’s Central Committee on Wednesday asked the top leadership to place a fresh draft on the political-tactical line to be adopted by the  party to rejuvenate its organisation.

With the rejection of the “Karat line”, general secretary Prakash Karat will now try to chalk out the party’s political-tactical line at the party plenum slated to be held after the party congress in April next year at Vishakhapatnam. The last plenum was held in 1978.

During the ongoing meet, Mr Karat had strongly opposed and questioned the 1978 Jalandhar party congress line of creating an anti-Congress front in alliance with regional parties.

He argued that the Jalandhar line has not paid dividend as the space vacated by the Congress has been taken over by caste-based parties.

Senior politburo member Sitaram Yechury contested the Karat line and said that there was nothing wrong with the Jalandhar line, but the way the line was being implemented in the last 10 years was “faulty.”