CPI(M) not averse to supporting UPA after next elections

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New Delhi, July 13: The Left parties may have snapped ties with the UPA over nuclear deal on an acrimonious note, but the CPI(M) is not averse to supporting the Congress-led coalition after the next elections provided ''that they do not betray it like this time''. Senior CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury said the present ''experience will be a shadow'' in the ties but did not rule out Left extending support to Congress based on the ''circumstances and policies'' it follows. ''It (support) depends on the policies they follow. If they follow a CMP without betraying like now,'' Yechury said in an interview to a news channel. ''This experience (government going to IAEA) will (however) be a shadow,'' he said, adding that the Left extended support to the UPA four years ago based on the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), which ''did not include the nuclear deal''. CPI general secretary A B Bardhan had, three days ago said, the Left parties will not be averse to supporting Congress in the bigger fight against communal forces in future but indicated that it would not support a government led by Manmohan Singh. He said there would be ''occasions'' in the future when the Left parties will have to fight against communal forces together with Congress and similar ''secular'' parties. ''He (Singh) will not always be the Prime Minister. I am talking about the Congress as an institution. I am talking of secular parties. We will have to deal with them,'' Bardhan said. Bureau Report


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This has let the cat out of the bag. The left is against the nuclear deal but not against UPA. Therefore it has arranged for SP to support the UP and get the numbers. It will now form a third front with BSP, TDP and maybe even AIADMK - all in order to fight against their greatest enemy, the BJP. In short, CPI(M) has most ingeniously allowed the nuclear deal to go through, created a third front and prepared for once again supporting the UPA. In splendid isolation - the BJP. Except that the electorate will this time isolate the grand alliance against nationalist BJP. - K.Venugopal - Mumbai