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Work for non-Congress, non-BJP alternative: CPI(M)

By Our Staff Correspondent

SHIMLA, DEC.10. The Central Committee member of CPI (M) and in charge of party affairs in Himachal, W.R. Vardharajan, today called upon party cadres to work for a non-Congress and non-BJP alternative in the State. Addressing a huge rally on the eve of the 12th State Conference of the party, the Marxist leader said: "There are hardly any changes in the economic policies after the coming of the Congress Government in the State as well as at the Centre".

Clarifying his party's stand on the fiscal reforms MoU, he said the Himachal Government was dishonestly comparing its MoU with the Left Governments of West Bengal and Tripura. The CPI (M) there had given an alternative MoU to the Centre after changing its anti-employee and anti-working class nature.

Mr. Vardhrajan also expressed the Left's concern at "the unleashing of the communal snake by the BJP and its allies in a new form now". He said: "The BJP is out of power but its communal agenda is still alive".

Speaking to the massive gathering, the Polit Bureau member, Sitaram Yechury, said that the CPI (M) was fast emerging as a third alternative in the hill State. Analysing the growth of the party in a small State, he said that crises in capitalism would definitely lead to socialism and not vice-versa as pleaded by anti-Left forces all over the world. He said the earlier NDA government had completely surrendered to the capitalist forces and gone for blatant globalisation.

"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reply yesterday to the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is an indication of the left's check on the UPA government," Mr. Yechury said

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