Various opinions within party ‘natural’: Yechury

Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday sought to brush aside differences with the official political-tactical line moved by general secretary Prakash Karat, saying such things were ‘natural’ in a democratic party.

‘It’s only natural and a party with a vibrant inner party democracy like ours, that various opinions come... This is not the first time it has happened in our party, it has happened in the past, it shall hopefully happen in the future also, as it is the life of the party,’ he told NDTV here.

His comments came days after differences came to fore within the CPI(M) leadership over the reasons that led to its decline and the ways to rejuvenate its organisation and overcome political isolation.

The party’s Central Committee asked the top leaders in the Politburo to give a fresh draft on the political-tactical line after Yechury and some others placed separate notes to express their differences with the official line.