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a) It seems some people in Kerala are disappointed with our approach to Hindus and this may be one of the reasons why the RSS, BJP and caste organisations are growing. Is this true?

b) When the Left comes to power, the minister for education is a minority community person or a party that is representing them. Why is this so?

c) Many Hindu temples were taken over as government property, but not even a single mosque or church were taken over either by the LDF or UDF governments.

S Muralidharan, Coimbatore

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While condemning the Hindutva communal elements' attacks and killings of innocent people (as in case of Dadri lynching), the Party is using the word Hindutva elements or outfits responsible for those atrocities. But in the case of Jihadi or ISIS killing people in Paris, the statement issued by the Party condemning the attack does not name them as ISIS or Jihadi or Muslim fundamentalist forces etc, but simply stated as terrorist attack.

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Our electoral policy in Bihar should be subject to strong scrutiny. Left parties should have contested a minimum number of seats, say 50, and supported the Grand Alliance in the remaining193 seats. By contesting in all seats, we have indirectly made the NDA path smoother. The Grand Alliance defeated the NDA on their own strength. Why do we forget the words of Dimitrov given in 1930s when fighting against the world's largest communal, fascist and repressive force, the Sangh Parivar? Your comments are expected.

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According to the organisational rules of CPI(M), election is to be held for committees at every level. As per clause 15, the outgoing committee will propose a panel. Any member present can object about any name so proposed and can even propose name or names of candidates with their consent. The proposed panel with additional names will then go for voting by secret ballot. If there is no additional name, then the panel will be accepted by raising hands.

My questions in this background are:

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As per the Constitution and the rules of the Party, "The supreme organ of the Party for the whole country shall be the All-India Party Congress." Functions and powers of the regular Party Congress include "To revise and change the Party Programme and the Party Constitution" and "To determine the Party line on current situation".

The Party is going to call Plenum in Kolkata during the last week of December 2015, obviously to discuss programmes and line of actions to be taken considering the current situation – domestic and global. 

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Q. Countries like China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba etc which have already completed people’s democratic revolution are generally equated with the erstwhile Soviet Union and termed as socialist countries. So far as my knowledge goes, it is only the USSR which had completed the socialist revolution and became the only country where there was no class exploitation and social oppression. No other country in the world could achieve this as yet. I think my presumption is correct. If so, is it correct to club all these countries together and term them, even loosely, as socialist countries?

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Q.  Recently, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court asked the government of India what steps it was taking towards formulating a Uniform Civil Code.  Is this not a step in the right direction and what is the CPI(M)’s stand?

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Q. Why is the CPI(M) criticising the Indian government’s stand on the Nepal Constitution? Has there not been injustice done to the Madhesis which is a legitimate concern for India? How the deadlock caused by the agitation by the people in the Terai region would be resolved?

B Sanyal, Varanasi

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