The crucial party meeting at Calcutta, today, showed the fault lines within the party's top leaders, Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat over having a truck with the Congress in the General Election of '19. The reasons could be any of the following or a combination of a few:-
(a) The party doesn't consider the Congress as a winnable mascot.
(b) It's a tussle between the two leaders to prove each one's supremacy.
(c) Or is the party trying to form a third front?
(d) Or stranger still, is it making a case for cosying up with the BJP?
I find it as a similar situation when Jyothi Basu was in a dilemma, years back, while being offered the Prime Minister's chair to head a rainbow coalition! Mind it, he as well as many of his colleagues, rued the decision of spurning the offer, then!
The ultimate decision at the party congress should give a peek into the overall strategy!
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2. The North East.
Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram are going to polls shortly. The BJP seems to be eyeing for a clean sweep but will the CPM bastion of Tripura fall like a pack of cards in its favour because Manik Sarcar, the chief minister, has a clean image thus far? The BJP is banking on the Prime Minister's winning juggernaut!
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3. A Hectic Day.
Lekha was down with a viral fever and is on the third day of antibiotics. My sisters had come down from Palakkad to join me for the early morning trip to Ettumanoor to attend Prasad's daughter's wedding. Selvam, the pressman, had dropped by dutifully as promised despite it being a Sunday. Damn sweet of him. Jose, who's gonna be our chauffeur for tomorrow came to identify the location and had cleaned up the Chevy. He's our man, George's elder brother.
This is just to take the pressure off me as I'm still recouping from the viral fever that has, thankfully, begun to ebb. Ashok Swaminathan and Anjali - they're with us in the Sri Lanka trip - dropped by for a short while, just to be with us. They're here to attend a friend's son's wedding. Damn sweet of them!
Tailpiece.
A quiet yet turbulent day. Hope Lekha's medical problems get sorted before I embark for the 'yatra'!
(a) The party doesn't consider the Congress as a winnable mascot.
(b) It's a tussle between the two leaders to prove each one's supremacy.
(c) Or is the party trying to form a third front?
(d) Or stranger still, is it making a case for cosying up with the BJP?
I find it as a similar situation when Jyothi Basu was in a dilemma, years back, while being offered the Prime Minister's chair to head a rainbow coalition! Mind it, he as well as many of his colleagues, rued the decision of spurning the offer, then!
The ultimate decision at the party congress should give a peek into the overall strategy!
* * *
2. The North East.
Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram are going to polls shortly. The BJP seems to be eyeing for a clean sweep but will the CPM bastion of Tripura fall like a pack of cards in its favour because Manik Sarcar, the chief minister, has a clean image thus far? The BJP is banking on the Prime Minister's winning juggernaut!
* * *
3. A Hectic Day.
Lekha was down with a viral fever and is on the third day of antibiotics. My sisters had come down from Palakkad to join me for the early morning trip to Ettumanoor to attend Prasad's daughter's wedding. Selvam, the pressman, had dropped by dutifully as promised despite it being a Sunday. Damn sweet of him. Jose, who's gonna be our chauffeur for tomorrow came to identify the location and had cleaned up the Chevy. He's our man, George's elder brother.
This is just to take the pressure off me as I'm still recouping from the viral fever that has, thankfully, begun to ebb. Ashok Swaminathan and Anjali - they're with us in the Sri Lanka trip - dropped by for a short while, just to be with us. They're here to attend a friend's son's wedding. Damn sweet of them!
Tailpiece.
A quiet yet turbulent day. Hope Lekha's medical problems get sorted before I embark for the 'yatra'!
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