Corporate capital trying to marginalise Left: CPI

NEW DELHI: Charging that corporate capital is trying to marginalise the Left parties in the country by exerting "control" over the media, CPI today called for the reunification of the Communist movement in India on a "principled basis" to pave the way for a strong Left Front.

"The corporate capital through its control over the media is making a bid to marginalise the Left as a whole," said a draft resolution drawn up at the party's just-concluded national council meeting in Nagpur.

Noting that the coming to power of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government reflects a "right-ward shift" in Indian politics, the draft resolution said that "the power has been taken over by a combination of corporate capital, rightist ideology and (the) worst form of communalism".

The new government is rushing through with the remaining agenda of economic neo-liberalism while showering concessions on certain big corporate houses, it said.

"It is surrendering to diktats of international finance capital through their tools like World Bank, International Monetary Fund and WTO. It is also reflected in the drift in foreign policy that is becoming more and more pro-USA," CPI said.

Outlining a political strategy for the party in such a scenario, the resolution stressed on the need to strengthen and expand the Left unity in the country.

"It reiterates the resolve to strive for reunification of the Communist movement in India on a principled basis. It should start with more and more unity in action of various Communist parties and factions.

"This will lay the foundation for a strong Left Front that will attract other secular parties, including the regional parties, and pave the way for building a programme-based Left and democratic alternative," it said.

The draft political resolution will be presented during the party's 22nd Congress slated to be held in the last week of March in Puducherry.