CPI(M) meet to finalise ideological document

A four-day session of the CPI(M) central committee began in Kolkata today to finalise its draft political resolution and ideological document ahead of the 20th party Congress to be held at Kozhikode in April. “Details of the ensuing party Congress will form the main part of the agenda in the central committee meeting,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said. After finalisation, the resolution and the ideological document will be made public for discussion at all levels of the party before adoption, party sources said, adding that they will be put on party’s website to take people’s opinion. [caption id=“attachment_185347” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“PTI”]  [/caption] Quoting politburo member Sitaram Yechury, the sources said these will be “public documents” and the purpose will be to inform people about the party’s strategy and stand in the given political situation. “There is no question of diluting the CPI(M)’s political stand so far as the economic policy of the Congress and the communal agenda of the BJP are concerned,” they said quoting Yechury. The meeting is also likely to take up for discussion the party’s strategy for the ensuing Assembly elections in five states. Aimed at finalising the party’s political strategy before the next Lok Sabha polls in 2014, the April 4-9 party Congress in Kozhikode in Kerala will be the last such Congress to be held before the general elections. PTI