AGARTALA, May 22 (TIWN): CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday postponed its politburo meeting which was scheduled to be held on May 22 – 24.

The CPI-M has postponed the meeting of its politburo and central committee scheduled to be heldin this week to review the results of assembly polls. The politburo and central committee meetings which were scheduled to be held on May 22-24 in New Delhi have been postponed.

However, the next dates for holding the meeting are yet to be finalised.

The 16-member politburo and the 93-member central committee was suppose to thoroughly study the party's performance in the five states, specially the disaster in West Bengal. Though the CPI-M leadership in Tripura is upbeat over the party's good showing in Kerala, it is upset over the Left Front's poorest performance in West Bengal.

Following the massive loss as an alliance in the WB assembly election, CM Manik Sarkar was scheduled to move to Delhi to attend the polit bureau meeting however CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury postponed politburo   .

It is to be mentioned here that the two-day long CPI-M politburo   meeting which was scheduled to be held in this week to review the results of the five assembly polls has been postponed.

CPI-M has faced a massive loss in the WB polls where although CPI-M and Congress had joined hand to fight against Mamata but one such mismatch of ideology has come against their existence in the political scenario.

The Left won only 33 of the 294 seats up for grabs. The Trinamool Congress captured the state, winning 211 seats.

A section of the politbureau feel that the party’s alliance with the Congress was a wrong decision “amounting to a deviation” from the tactical line laid down by the CPI (M)’s highest decision-making body, the triennial party congress.

The Trinamool, as in all other years since the Panchayat elections of 2008, has gained substantially in south Bengal, which has 218 of 294 seats. The Trinamool got 191 of these in 2014. Now it has bagged nearly the same number. Additionally, it improved its performance in four districts of north Bengal. Elections in the state were held in six-phases beginning from April 4 with 1961 candidates including 198 women in the fray.