New Delhi: The CPM politburo, party's highest decision making body, is meeting on Monday in New Delhi to discuss the poll debacle.
This is one of the worst electoral setback for the Left in the past 40 years. Now many within the party are debating if the central leadership made a tactical mistake in withdrawing support from UPA and projecting a Third Front during elections.
On Sunday, the four Left parties, which received a drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, met to analyse the results and their future course of action.
The meeting at the CPM headquarters was attended by party's Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury, CPI's A B Bardhan and D Raja, RSP's T J Chandrachoodan and Forward Bloc's Debabrata Biswas and D Deverajan.
The Left tally was drastically reduced to 24 from the 2004 figure of 61 as it suffered huge setbacks in West Bengal and Kerala.
"We are discussing the reasons of the debacle. We will go through the reasons why we lost. All the parties will also individually need to discuss the issue," Chandrachoodan told reporters before the meeting.