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By K.V. Prasad
NEW DELHI, FEB. 11. Concerned over reports of consistent disagreement by the Left parties, especially on issues concerning economic affairs, with the United Progressive Alliance Government, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and Congress leaders have reached out to the Left in an apparent damage control exercise. Taking note of the discontent by the Left parties — the Communist Party of India predicting bad days ahead for the United Progressive Alliance and the All-India Forward Bloc mincing no words — the Congress got into the act, top political sources said. The Prime Minister made a telephone call to the CPI general secretary, A.B. Bardhan, who was attending a party conference in Andhra Pradesh, and understood to have sought to know the CPI's provocation in making such a statement.
Apparently, the CPI leaders understood that while Dr. Singh and his team heard them in private, the policy decisions being announced by his Government on regular basis went contrary to the spirit of discussion. The Left parties have been expressing dissent over decisions of the Government to raise the limit of the foreign direct investment in telecom and banking sectors despite protest.
Emissary to AIFB
A senior emissary of the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, got in touch with the AIFB general secretary, Debabrata Biswas. The AIFB, at its last central committee meeting, concluded that the Congress was pursuing a path of economic reforms not agreeable to the Left. The party has maintained that the Congress was pushing "its agenda" while making it appear that the Left parties were consulted whereas all that the Congress did was to "merely inform" of the decisions arrived at. Informed sources said that after the Left parties' views came out afresh, the Congress president's political secretary, Ahmed Patel, has begun the fire-fighting exercise.
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