CPM’s crucial Vijaywada meet starts today

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,Biman Bose and Nirupam Sen will attend the CPM’s four-day extended Central Committee (CC) meeting which starts in Vijaywada on Saturday. Party sources said that general secretary Prakash Karat has admitted in the draft resolution to be placed at the meet that he could not anticipate that the Congress-led UPA would retain power following the Left Front’s withdrawal of support. Bhattacharjee will cite this to argue that the CPM should soften its anti-Congress drive,Instead,it should go all out against the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress for its active opposition to Bhattacharjee’s industrialisation drive. However,the CC has chosen some staunch critics of the CM’s industrialisation agenda as speakers at the meet.