The party’s drubbing in the polls will be the focus of the central committee meeting scheduled for May 29 and 30 in New Delhi.
Party sources said that Bose would place the report before the CPM central committee. The report will make a preliminary analysis of the party’s defeat at the various tiers of panchayat units as well as the three Zilla Parishads of East Midnapore, North Dinajpur and South 24 Parganas. The state committee will also meet before of the central committee meeting on Sunday and give necessary inputs for the preparation of the report.
Though the state leadership has not outlined the exact reason for the defeat, preliminary assessment suggests that the CPM and the Left Front’s poor show in districts of East Midnapore, Nadia, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, North Dinajpur and Malda is expected to cost them dearly in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The party is now planning to find a strategy to overcome the present bad phase and improve their organisational strength before the parliamentary polls.
In districts like East Midnapore, where there are 628 Panchayat Samity seats, the party has won 176 seats, while rival Trinamool Congress has won 374 seats. The Congress and BJP together have registered victory in 31 seats.
If the trend continues in the next Lok Sabha elections, the CPM is at the risk of losing 20 Assembly seats or three Lok Sabha seats since one parliamentary constituency consists of seven Assembly segments.
The 10 parliamentary seats where CPM has fared badly in the recent polls are Tamluk, Contai, Nabadwip, Barasat, Basirhat, Diamond Harbour, Mathurapur, Jadavpur, Krishnagar and Uluberia.
Though the CPM has won most of the Zilla Parishads, it lost the lower level panchayat units like Panchayat Samity and Gram Panchayats in these Zilla Parishads to the Opposition parties.
For example, the CPM has won the Nadia Zilla Parishad. But the party has bagged 180 Panchayat Samity seats in this district against 312 seats won jointly by the Trinamool Congress and Congress.