Under attack over successive electoral losses, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat says he alone will not take the responsibility for the massive debacle in West Bengal. "It has nothing to do with individuals or individual units of the party. As I said,it depends on where we are politically,whether we have the correct approach. "So neither will I take credit for 2006 (West Bengal assembly polls when Left won 233 of the 294 seats),nor will take responsibility alone for 2011," he told TV channels when asked whether he would take responsibility for the defeat in West Bengal Assembly elections. He said it just did not not depend on individuals. "It's the organisation and we have our methods of reviewing and correcting if there are any mistakes or distortions",he said. There have been murmurs of protest,especially in West Bengal and Kerala units of the party,against Karat over the drubbing the party had suffered in the Lok Sabha polls after the Left withdrawal of support to the UPA government on the Indo-US nuclear deal. Maintaining that the entire party was concerned about Bengal,he said "the central leadership,from the top,which includes me,has to take responsibility for this defeat and see how we can get out of it". Asked whether at any point he felt like quitting,he said as Communist they spend their whole life working for a cause and do not not think of stepping out of the movement.
