After its electoral success in the local body polls, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) will exercise a minimal aggressive approach in seat-sharing among its alliance partners for the Assembly polls due in four months.
However, its hands-off coalition management seems to have aggravated the situation with infighting raging among its junior partners. The State unit of the Janata Dal (Secular), a constituent of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), split into factions with dissenters going for a nascent outfit. It was followed by the fractious disorder in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) State unit.
Despite the minor parties having no big stake in the political arena and the winnability factor of their nominees remaining low, the CPI(M) does not want to gamble on rattling its partners. Already the entry of the Jose K. Mani faction and the induction of the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) are giving a tough posture to the CPI(M) in the seat-sharing talks.
The CPI (M) leadership is…
