NIN Web Desk : (Dr subhrojyoti chattopadhyay); If Sitaram would have been alive in the age group this time then there would have been a different scenario. However, a large part of the CPI(M) felt that Sitaram has been kept as the general secretary of the party in ‘special circumstances’. They had no choice but to find an alternative to his death. After several names were considered, Baby, a former Kerala minister, was unanimously chosen. On Saturday i.e. Baby’s birthday he completed 70 years.
The Party gave him the responsibility for the next three years as the General Secretary. The center of gravity of the CPI(M) has shifted towards the south in the last few decades. After EMS Namboodiripad (Kerala) and P Sundaraya (Andhra Pradesh), Harkishen Singh Surjeet of Punjab was the top CPI(M) leader for a long time, after their death Karat took charge. Prakash Karat is from Kerala whereas Sitaram was from Andhra. Although for a long time they worked for the party in Delhi and were not involved in state politics in that sense. Whereas Baby, the former education minister of Kerala was a member of Rajya Sabha from Kerala for 12 years 1986-1998. As a result, many people are of the opinion that this native of Kollam can be the general secretary of the CPI(M), so the center of gravity of the party has shifted further to the south.
M A Baby was the leader of SFI, the student body of the CPI(M). Later he was also in charge of All India General Secretary of Youth Organisation DYFI. This time he has become the general secretary of the party. After Surjeet again a leader from a minority section (Christian) got the responsibility of General Secretary of CPI(M). Baby likes to take pictures of himself earlier he used camera but now he takes pictures on phone. When CPI(M) is going through danger in national politics, the responsibility of changing the ‘image’ of the party has come to his hands. In West Bengal the party is zero with no MPs-MLAs, in Tripura the ruling BJP has the title of main opposition due to the equation. Wheras in Kerala they are only in power that too in entire India. After Sitaram’s death, it was revealed that Brindara Karat wanted Bengal State Secretary Mohammad Salim to take charge of the party but Salim refused to leave the state and go to Delhi.
A section of the party also raised the name of the farmer leader Ashok Dhawal but to it most did not agree. Dhawale is the leader of the peasant movement and a few years ago, it was under his leadership that the long march of peasants from Nashik to Mumbai stirred the Maratha Mulu. The main thing is he has no experience in parliamentary politics. Dhawal is already a doctor but in the end, the party Congress did not give him the responsibility. Seven of the outgoing Politburo members were to be dropped due to age. The list included Prakash Karat, Vrinda Karat, Suhashini Ali, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, West Bengal’s Suryakant Mishra and Tamil Nadu’s G Ramakrishnan.
However, as an ‘exception’, Vijayan was kept in the Central Committee and Politburo. The remaining six moved away and a generation change in the CPI(M) took place in the Madurai Party Congress. Srideep Bhattacharya, a member of the Politburo has been in place of Suryakanta from West Bengal. Tripura State Secretary Jitendra Chowdhury has been made a Politburo member in place of Manik.
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