Tripura Assembly polls performance will not effect Left Front more

Agartala, April 11: The Left Front's poor show in the Tripura Assembly polls will hit the Left movement only temporarily and the setbacks will be overcome, CPI-M Central Committee member Bijan Dhar said on Wednesday.

He was speaking to the media here at the end of a two-day state committee meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the dominant partner of the Left Front in Tripura.

CPI-M politburo member Prakash Karat was among the attendees.

"The Left Front's electoral disaster will temporarily affect the Left movement in India. But we will overcome the setback through party programmes and actions," Dhar said.

"The Assembly polls were the first direct fight between the Left and the BJP. There was lack of understanding and perception about the corporate-backed BJP-RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) communal activities in Tripura," said Dhar, who is State Secretary of CPI-M.