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Basu unhappy with UPA's performance

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KOLKATA: Unhappy with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government on various issues, the Left parties had given the Government a month's time to study a nine-page note and the issues and recommendations made would be discussed at the next meeting of the UPA-Left co-ordination committee, veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said here on Friday.

The note was submitted on Thursday to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting of the committee.

"We have given them a month's time and after that we will meet to discuss the issues raised in the note," Mr Basu said.

The note expressed concern over rise in prices of essential commodities, threat of communalism, growing terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and northeast, foreign policy and deviations from the Common Minimum Programme.

It, however, appreciated initiatives such as reservation for those belonging to Other Backward Classes in educational institutions and the rural employment guarantee scheme.

"We are not happy with the performance of the UPA Government, particularly on economic issues and its policies in external affairs and we have mentioned this in the note", Mr. Basu said after a meeting at the CPI (M) State Secretariat.

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