The Communist Party of India (Marxist-leninist) liberation would field candidates for three lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly seats in the State. It was decided by the State party leadership in the presence of Central leaders on the final day of a three-day meet of the party’s Central Committee here on Sunday.
The State leaders said the party would contest in the lok Sabha seats of Puri, Kalahandi and Koraput in the general election of 2014. Besides, the Central Committee leaders said the party would field candidates in around 70 lok Sabha seats in 14 States.
At the meeting, party general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya analysed various political and social issues and called upon the party leaders to focus on these issues while campaigning for the elections.
Party leaders discussed about the results of the recent polls in five States and the AAP’s rising in Delhi, the Muzaffarnagar communal riot and the BJP’s stand, security for women, protest by the lGBT community against the Supreme Court’s verdict, Modi’s “illegal surveillance” on a woman and demand for a separate Bill for Telangana.
The Central Committee condemned the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD Government’s witch-hunt in the CPI(Ml) liberation activists in Rayagada due to which six activists of the party have been arrested on false grounds of being Maoists. The party demanded immediate release of its arrested comrades.