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Is This the End of the Road for the CPI(M) in Bengal?
Many grassroots CPI(M) workers held its leaders responsible for the broken relationship between the top party leadership and its cadres.
Activists of CPI (M) stage a protest rally against hike in electricity bills, in Kolkata. Photo: PTI/Ashok Bhaumik
Politics14/May/2021
Kolkata: May 2, 2021 turned out to be a historic day for the Left parties for two reasons. First, by winning the assembly election in Kerala, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) broke a long cycle of one-term government in the state which was continuing since 1977. Second, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front failed to win even a single seat in the West Bengal assembly election. In a first since independence, there wonât be a Left representative in the Bengal state assembly.Â
The CPM bagged a little over 28 lakh votes this Bengal election. Trinamul won 35 lakh votes in South 24-Parganas alone, and 31 lakh in North 24-Parganas.
These figures, from the Election Commission, reflect the drubbing the onetime rulers of Bengal took this election almost as succinctly as the number of seats they won: zero.
The CPM’s vote share was a pitiful 4.70 per cent less than a tenth that of Trinamul which, of course, contested 289 seats compared to the Marxists’ 139.
“The CPM, once a king in Bengal politics, became a beggar within a decade,” political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty said.
He was referring to the haemorrhage that began in the CPM’s vote bank with the 2009 general election in the aftermath of the Singur and Nandigram movements and could not be stanched even after 12 years.
West Bengal Assembly polls | Samyukta Morcha reduced to a rubble
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The total vote share of all the constituents of the party not even touched 8%
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Supporters of TMC celebrate their win at the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata on May 2, 2021.
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The total vote share of all the constituents of the party not even touched 8%
The experiment of the Samyukta Morcha, where the Left parties along with the Congress allied with a party headed by a Muslim peer, not only proved counter-productive but reduced the Left and Congress to a rubble in West Bengal politics. The trends and results of the West Bengal Assembly elections indicate that the total vote share of all the constituents of the Samyukta Morcha has not even touched 8%. The CPI(M) vote share dropped below 5% as counting was under way. The Congress vote share slipped to less than 3% in these elections.