For success of this call, the Council decided to go to the workers directly at the grass root level. Instead of depending only on the conventional form of campaign, the council advised the trade union leaders and workers to organise group meetings and individual contact with the workers of all shades. Apart from other form of campaign among the working class, the West Bengal Committee published an appeal to the working class and the toiling people in Bengali, Hindi and Urdu languages and about 3,00,000 copies of the appeal had been distributed among the working class. The District Committees and the unions among the working class through various forms had conducted a massive campaign. Apart from the appeal of the West Bengal Committee, the District Committees and the individual unions also printed and distributed appeals among the respective workers explaining the situation of the respective industries as a result of liberalisation policy pursued by the Central Governments.

This time, the election battle was too hard for the Left Front. To shift the attention of the people from the adverse impact of the policies pursued by the BJP led Government and its failure to protect the interest of the vast majority of the people, in maintaining communal harmony and to protect the democratic fabric of the country, TC and BJP, with the help of print and electronic media, systematically raised various non-issues against the Left Front and the CITU. They tried their utmost to confuse the working class by marking CITU responsible for the disastrous industrial scenario and deteriorating condition of the workers. Unprecedented rainfall and the disastrous flood situation on the eve of the poll were also used by them against the Left Front.

Though the election results have not yet been reviewed in details by the West Bengal Committee of CITU, the District Committees and CITU Unions in their own areas, from the preliminary analysis it becomes quite clear that the majority of the workers in the State of West Bengal have once again reposed their faith in the Left Front despite the large print and electronic media's systematic campaign against the Left Front this year. The big dailies even campaigned to say that the workers would vote against the Left Front this year. Their forecasts have all gone wrong.

It has to be kept in mind that in any industrial area in West Bengal, the workers and their family members do not constitute the majority of the total electorate of that constituency. In the working class areas, the reactionary forces are also strong enough to operate in their class interest. It is also a fact that a part of the working class in West Bengal too are still victim of motivated propaganda launched by the BJP alliance, the Congress and the media.

In the industrial areas the workers and their families have come out in large numbers to vote for the Left Front candidates. It is something very unique when the BJP-led government is planning to close down 90 collieries and 7 public sector undertakings, in the State, the workers have unflinchingly supported the Front candidates.

Except one Lok Sabha seat (Nabadwip) the Left Front has been successful in retaining all the industrial seats won in 1988. On the other hand the Howrah Lok Sabha seat which is spread over a large industrial area, has been wrested by the CPI(M) from the Trinamul Congress, a constituent of NDA.

80 assembly segments both in urban and rural areas covering organised and unorganised workers, have been identified as industrial area. The Comparative results in these segments are as follows:

Prima facie it can be said that the organised activity of the CITU among the working class during the election campaign helped in improving the election results in industrial areas. Lack of organised activities of CITU among the working class resulted in our failure to do better in certain industrial areas, where the Left Front lost the election.