Sunday, April 8, 2012

Left parties to contest Delhi Municipal Corporation Elections

CPI(M) will contest nine seats in the Delhi municipal polls slated to be held on April 15th. The party has fielded five candidates in North Delhi Corporation and two each from South Delhi and East Delhi corporations. Of the nine candidates, five are women. The seats from which the party is contesting are Banker, Alipur (SC-Women), Mangolpuri, Prana Pratap Bagh (Women), Inderpuri (SC), Sagarpur, Meetheypur, Dilshad Colony and Sonia Vihar (Women).

Communist Party of India has fielded 17 candidates across the three new corporations. The CPI has fielded nine candidates for the east Delhi corporation, three for the south and five for the north. Com AK Mathur, candidate from Ayanagar (ward number 175) in south Delhi andVinod Chopra from Khichripur (ward number 214) in east Delhi

CPI-M Congress adopts ideological resolution


CPI-M 20th Party Congress today adopted the ideological resolution presented by politburo member Sitaram Yechury to meet the challenges of changing times.The resolution has proposed for building and strengthening a political alternative in the country instead of relying on models borrowed from the West and China . Earlier such ideological resoultions were adopted at the 7th party congress held in 1964, CC Pleenum Held at Burdwan in 1968 and 14th Party Congress held in 1991.Delegates moved 225 amendments and some of them were accepted.

 While critically analysing the deficiencies in socialist countries which had charted a course of economic reforms to meet the challenges thrown up by "imperialist globalisation", the document also rejects the theory of "identity politics" based on caste, religion and ethnicity.

Briefing reporters on the day's proceedings at the party's 20th Congress here, politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai said one delegate opposed the resolution, while three others abstained. "There was broad agreement at the Congress on the overall content of the draft ideological document," Pillai said.

"Elections may come and we will take appropriate decisions on electoral adjustments with regional parties at that time. At the moment, there is no idea of a programme-based third front," he said.

Pillai, who presented the organisational report at the Congress last evening, said the CPI-M considered electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Kerala as only one of the indicators while assessing its growth and expansion.

The party had learnt from the mistakes it committed in these states and would take remedial action. "However, the party does not assess its growth based solely on electoral gains," he said. CPI-M will attempt to overcome the shortcomings and weaknesses that led to its electoral debacle, he said.