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‘Left sore over Third Front move’

KADAPA: Left parties are opposed to Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s move to form a Third Front, as it is aimed at furthering his political ambitions, Communist Party of India’s (CPI) State secretariat member T. Lakshminarayana alleged on Monday.

Addressing delegates at the party’s 20th district ‘Mahasabha’ at Badvel, he asserted that the CPI was not a permanent ally of any political party, but would remain on people’s side and sail along with like-minded parties based on their policies. Stating that the two-party system ingrained in the State was proving perilous to public interests, he said people were voting for coalition governments at the Centre.

Describing the Left party as a decision-making force opposing anti-people policies of the Central and State governments, he charged United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as being pro-US and pro-World Bank, but not daring to implement their policies. The need for emergence of an alternative political force would be deliberated upon in CPI’s State mahasabha at Tirupati slated from December 19 to 21.

The Congress and the TDP were speculating mid-term polls and both had begun wooing the electorate, Mr. Lakshminarayana pointed out. Another alarming trend was caste polarisation in the State . He called upon communists to gain ample strength so as to counter the coalition forces.

He urged Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy to correct the administrative machinery to check graft and claimed that the Congress had lost power in the past on account of rampant graft.

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