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Poll pact: Laloo asks CPI(M) to wait till next week

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 6. A day after the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expressed its reservation over the attitude of the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, in finalising a poll pact in Bihar, Mr. Yadav today called up the CPI(M) Politburo member, Sitaram Yechury, and suggested that the party wait till next week.

On Friday at a meeting of the party secretariat of the Bihar State Committee with the party general secretary, Harkishan Singh Surjeet and other members of the Politburo, it was stressed that the RJD must adhere to the arrangement, arrived at earlier so that the fight against communal forces was carried forward. In a statement the CPI(M) said, in Bihar, the party had aligned with the RJD to defeat the ``communal forces'' led by the BJP. This was based on the understanding that the RJD was the main secular force in the State.``The CPI(M) continues to adhere to this understanding. This was so even at a time when many other secular parties had deserted the RJD in the past elections.''

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