The Communist Party of India (Marxists) are in the habit of seeking resignation from the leaders of other parties whenever they find faults in them. It started when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India and CPI(M) had some eight MPs in their flock. Everyone including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv, Narasimha Rao to Vajpayee, Advani, Modi, and who not, were all been subjected to CPI(M)’s demand for their resignation at some point of time.

Who does not know the threat that the CPI(M) had been injecting on the incumbent Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh? This all happened while CPI(M) had been increasing or holding their red bastion intact. But now, when the red bastion has crumpled miserably, the CPI(M) boss looks unrelenting in not submitting his resignation to the party. Equally the tenacious Bengal party chief, Biman Bose has not yet accepted his moral responsibility in the electoral debacle, what to talk of resignation?

Even before the first ballot was polled, the veteran marxist leader Jyoti Basu indicated his reservation about his party’s victory. Not only that, he had his inner vision visualised an outcome that he was not ready to accept. As the result of the polls started coming in, he had called up the Chief Minister and the State Party Chief and outrightly given the dressing down.

The gentleman CM Budha Babu realised the seriousness of the issue and decided to skip the politburo meeting. It seems the meeting for Monday has been abandoned, fearing that the members could demand the head of its chief, as they are in the habit of seeking resignation.

During the past five years, the CPI(M) under Prakash Karat has been regarded as a conservative who does not like major changes, creates hurdles for the pro-development PM and narcissistic by nature. No other previous general secreatry of the party was ever involved in the parliamentary matters as did the incumbent one, who himself was not a member of the Lok Sabha.

Not one, there were several issues that were responsible for the present debacle. The land acquisition for industries, brutality on farmers, factionalism amongst the party and the Left Front, receding of minority support, ill-behavior of Kerala CM and the Bengal party chief have definitely made the distance from the common men.

For all these, Karat and Bose are to be blamed, and everyone can hear the murmurs of demand of their resignation. Both of them should learn from their bete noire, the BJP Chief Lal Krishna Advani who did not waste time in submitting his resignation to the party. If the CPI(M) party wants to move forward, it is high time they sack both the Party Chief and the State Chief.