Slogans like ‘BJMool’ created confusion, says CPI(M) note

‘It did not benefit the party in West Bengal Assembly poll’

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), in an internal party note, has said slogans such as “BJMool’ describing the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) as two sides of the same coin have created confusion among the people and did not work for the party in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections. “The understanding of the CPI(M) is that the BJP is not like any other political party, since the BJP is governed by fascist RSS. This is party’s understanding. But during the election some confusion was created that BJP and the TMC were alike. Slogans like BJPMool and calling BJP and TMC two sides of the same coin gave rise to confusion,” an internal note circulated by the party earlier this month said. The document says the internal assessment of the party is “the BJP and the TMC are never the same. But something that needs to be kept in mind is that from the very start of Trinamool, its registration and the symbol, everything has been done as per instructions of the RSS. One of the characteristics of the BJP is that the party which takes its support it wants to gobble it. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the contest between the two parties is not fixed,” the statement said.