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Left parties tug in different directions
The Left Party functionaries appear to be tugging in different directions over the proposal of having a poll pact with the Congress in the elections to the Khammam civic body.
Warangal/Khammam: The Left Party functionaries appear to be tugging in different directions over the proposal of having a poll pact with the Congress in the elections to the Khammam civic body. On the contrary, the same Left Parties, along with some others, in Warangal district have come together and formed ‘Better Warangal Front’ to contest in the civic body elections.
Notwithstanding the ideological differences, the CPI and the CPM have always fought the elections together for over three decades in the state prior to 2014 elections. Albeit both the parties oppose the Congress and the BJP at the national level, the CPI had an electoral alliance with the Congress and the CPM went with the YSR Congress in Telangana in 2014 General Election.
In the recent election to the Council seat from Khammam Local Bodies Constituency, both the parties came together along with the Congress and Telugu Desam. However, CPI nominee Puvvada Nageswara Rao lost the election to TRS’ Balasani Laxminarayana.
Even before the election to the Khammam civic body was announced, both the CPI and CPM agreed to revive their alliance. But of late, the CPI wants to take Congress also into their alliance for which the CPM was opposing vehemently. While the CPI state functionaries want to go with the CPM, the district council appears to be hellbent on adding Congress also to their fold.
Speaking to The Hans India, the CPM Telangana State secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram said: “We only want to go with the CPI and the question of having a poll pact with the Congress never arises.” Still we are in consultation with the CPI state executive body, he added.
CPI state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy said: “Party will disclose its decision on Tuesday.” The CPM and CPI base in Warangal is quite different compared to Khammam, once a bastion for the Left parties. It may be mentioned here that CPM was at the helm of Khammam municipality for about four decades in about five decades of elected body history.
The recent stats suggest that Left parties in Warangal are far from making an impact in the civic body polls to GWMC. The Left Party-backed candidate Prof. Gali Vinod Kumar was polled just 1.43 per cent of votes in the recently held Warangal Lok Sabha by-poll. He secured just 14,788 votes in a total of 10.34 lakh votes polled.
