In the Draft Political Resolution of the CPI (M) released on Tuesday, the party said that in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, it’s main task will be to “defeat the BJP and its allies by rallying all the secular and democratic forces. However, this has to be done without having an understanding or electoral alliance with the Congress party.”

Adopted at the party’s Central Committee meet in Kolkata last January, the resolution said “given the experience of the nearly four years rule of the Modi Government it is imperative to defeat the BJP government in order to isolate the Hindutva communal forces and reverse the anti-people economic policies.” “Thus, the main task is to defeat the BJP and its allies by rallying all the secular and democratic forces. However, this has to be done without having an understanding or electoral alliance with the Congress party,” the resolution said.

The draft political resolution was adopted for the 22nd party congress which will consider it for adoption as the party’s final political position. In the past, the CPI (M)-led Left Front has played a crucial role in building up a political alternative at the Central level.

Referring to the national situation, the resolution said that nearly four years of the Modi Government had led to the “onset of a right-wing authoritarian-communal regime, characterised by an intensified pursuit of neo-liberal policies, resulting in all round attacks on the working people”. There was “concerted effort to implement the RSS’s Hindutva agenda which threatens the secular democratic framework of the State, accompanied by attacks on the minorities and dalits”.

Referring to the Congress Party and the BJP, the resolution said “the Congress party has the same class character as that of the BJP. It represents the interests of the big bourgeois-landlord classes.” But, it said, “it is the BJP which is in power today and given its basic link to the RSS, it is the main threat. So, there cannot be a line of treating both the BJP and the Congress as equal dangers, the resolution said.”

“Our approach should be to cooperate with the Congress and other secular opposition parties in parliament on agreed issues. Outside Parliament, we should cooperate with all secular opposition forces for a broad mobilisation of people against the communal threat. We should foster joint actions of class and mass organisations, in such a manner that can draw in the masses following the Congress and other bourgeois parties,” the resolution said.

It said, “There are regional parties which have not joined hands with the BJP. We should try and develop united actions on people’s issues, against communalism and authoritarian attacks with these parties wherever possible.The role and politics of specific regional parties in a state must be taken into account while working out our tactical approach to them”.