[Reader-list] `Stranded Between Government and Opposition: The Politics of the CPI(M) Since 1989’

[Prabhakar Singh]

Left should remain left.They should not come in the 'middle' of Government and Opposition.They deserve to be left out from the Indian political scene as they are making mockery of themselves.They are absolutely irrelevant today.
Prabhakar



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From: Rajesh Ramakrishnan <rajeshr at csds.in>
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Monday, 4th August, 2008
You are invited to a talk on:

`Stranded Between Government and Opposition: The Politics of the
CPI(M) Since 1989'

By Sanjay Ruparelia
at 3 PM in the Seminar Hall, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054

Since 1989, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has sought to
define its national politics through two principal objectives: to
limit the advance of Hindu nationalist forces and to halt the
deepening of neo-liberal economic reform.  For these reasons, the
CPI(M) has provided external parliamentary support to anti-BJP
coalitions in 1989, 1996 and 2004, without joining government.  It has
also sought to block the advance of liberal economic reform at the
Centre while pursuing it in the states where it governs, particularly
West Bengal.

This paper investigates the origins, dynamics and consequences of
these seeming contradictions.  It examines three causal factors in
particular: the logic of political self-reproduction in India's
federal parliamentary democracy; the narrowing of economic policy
options in India's federal market economy; and the conceptions of
power, political responsibility and political possibility that inform
the strategies and tactics of the party.

Sanjay Ruparelia, Visiting Fellow at CSDS, is Assistant Professor of
Political Science at the New School for Social Research.  Dr.
Ruparelia received his PhD in politics from the Faculty of Social and
Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. His present research
analyses the relationship between economic liberalisation, militant
Hindu nationalism and the rise of lower-caste, communist and regional
parties. He is writing a book manuscript, provisionally entitled,
"Divided We Govern: Federal Coalition Politics in India", which
analyses the importance of institutions, power and judgment in
explaining the politics of the 'third force' since 1989.  He is also
co-editing a multidisciplinary volume of essays, "A Great
Transformation? Understanding India's New Political Economy", which
examines the preceding general themes.  His previous research on
federal coalition politics has been published in Comparative Politics
and Economic and Political Weekly.
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