Though CPI(M) top brass has accepted responsibility for the dismal poll performance and shrinking its mass base, any change in leadership would happen only in the party congress next year.
“The Politburo and the central leadership took the primary responsibility for the failure to expand the independent strength and the decline in the mass base of the party which was reflected in the election results,” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters on Monday, after a two-day meeting of the 89-member Central Committee here.
To question on any senior leader intends to resign taking responsibility for poll debacle, Karat said, “Neither in the Politburo, nor in the CC, did anyone want to resign. In a communist party, no one resigns due to election results.
“What we have to take responsibility is for our failure to implement the political-organisational line, advance the party and expand its mass base. We have failed to do so,” Karat said in response to a question.
Reports had earlier said that Sitaram Yechury and some senior leaders from West Bengal had offered to resign from the Politburo due to the party’s dismal poll performance. Asked whether an ‘anti-Congress wave or a Modi wave’ led to the BJP’s victory in the polls, Karat said it was essentially a wave against the Congress.