The CPI(M) is expecting to lose the next assembly elections in West Bengal, its general secretary Prakash Karat is said to have confided to the best living Marxist historian of present times, Eric Hobsbawm.
In an interview to New Left Review magazine, published from London, the 92 year-old Hobsbawm has quoted Karat as saying that the party expected to �do very badly� in the next assembly elections.
There was no denial from the CPM, and an apparently embarrassed Karat did not respond to requests for comments.
This could put Karat in a spot, coming as it does at a time when the party is preparing for its toughest battle in Bengal and Kerala, the states ruled by it.
It did badly in both states in the last Lok Sabha elections.
In the latest bi-monthly issue of the prestigious Left journal, Hobsbawm has mentioned the �collapse of the CPI(M) in West Bengal� as one of the major developments across the world that surprised him.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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