Prakash Karat to continue as CPI-M chief
May 13th, 2011 - 11:46 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Prakash Karat will continue to be the general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) despite the defeat of the Left Front in West Bengal and Kerala assembly polls, party sources said here Friday.
“There is no question of a change in leadership. The CPI-M is a cadre-based party where the leaders and workers share their responsibilities both in good times and bad times. It is not like the Congress to find a scapegoat for defeat,” a party leader said.
He said the politburo of the CPI-M will meet here Monday “to analyse the election results, not to find excuses or to name a scapegoat”.
Karat’s general secretaryship is to end this year when he completes three years, he added.
Karat was first elected general secretary of the party at the CPI-M’s 17th congress in New Delhi in April 2005.
He was re-elected for another three years at the 18th congress in Coimbatore in March 2008.
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