Big brother CPI(M) has decided to put in their places the smaller Left constituents that have been an irritant in many issues — particularly the Forward Bloc and the RSP, though the CPI will not be entirely spared either. The crucial political-organisation report, to be presented for discussion and adoption at the ongoing 19th party congress here, is learnt to have directly blamed the two smaller allies for causing wedges and problems in the Left camp, especially for the spat within it over Nandigram and other issues.The Pol-org report is learnt to have categorically asked that the party must counter posturing of the RSP and the Forward Bloc — both “politically and ideologically”.

Sources said the report is particularly cut up over these two and at its party congress in Hyderabad last week it totally ruled out support to Special Economic Zones. The CPI(M) had earlier worked out a broad understanding in the Left camp for a more practical approach to ask for suitable pro-Left amendments in the SEZ policy. The report mentions that the existing SEZ regulations are no good and will frustrate holistic development.

The report breezes through owning up the Nandigram affair as a political and administrative folly, even as it asks for the development of a comprehensive guideline to be strictly followed by all CPI(M)-led governments for taking over land, particularly farmland, for SEZ. Some of the canons that this guideline needs to go by are a ceiling on maximum acquirable area, preventive safeguards against land acquisition, sufficient compensation and effective rehabilitation of the displaced.

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