Kolkata: Gunning for Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat's head for the Left's electoral mauling, expelled party member and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Monday said, "needle of responsibility" points at Karat and he should consider resigning.
Chatterjee, who was thrown out of the party for refusing to obey the party diktat to step down as speaker during the July 22, 2008, trust vote in parliament, also described Karat's attempts to cobble up a Third Front grouping with an aim to form an alternative government as "suicidal". He said a responsible and able leadership should take over the reins of the Marxist party.
Lok Sabha Speaker Chatterjee, regretted the disastrous Lok Sabha poll results of the party in West Bengal and Kerala. This time the Left parties of Lok Sabha tally has been just 24, with the CPI-M's share at 16 which is the lowest in three decades.
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