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UPA will end up committing ‘suicide’: CPI

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Left withdrew support out of compulsion, says party deputy general secretary Sudhakar Reddy

The Communist Party of India MP hopes a
third front led by Left will emerge after polls
Communists will never align with fundamentalist forces like BJP, says Sudhakar Reddy

— Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

SHARING VIEWS: CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu interacting with CPI MP Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy at a meeting organised in protest against the nuclear deal in Hyderabad on Friday.

HYDERABAD: CPI deputy general secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy said here on Friday that the UPA government would end up committing ‘suicide’ on July 22 when it seeks a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Addressing a meeting organised by the State units of CPI and CPI (M), Mr. Reddy said the Left was not happy to pull down a government which it supported for over four years. But, it did so out of compulsion under unavoidable circumstances.

He expressed the hope that a third front led by the Left parties would emerge after the elections.

These parties would consider extending support to the UPA minus the leaders who played a key role in clinching the Indo-US nuclear deal. Moreover, the UPA would have to tender an apology to the nation for the wrong done.

Conditional support

Mr. Reddy based his argument about the likelihood of Left to support UPA after polls on the ground that the Communists would never align with fundamentalist forces represented by the BJP. Moreover, the BJP also favoured the nuclear deal, though with certain amendments.

He described the opposition of the Left to the nuclear deal as a struggle by the Communists to preserve the sovereignty of the country.

‘No need for deal’

CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu asked where was the need to strike the deal since it would result in the country’s energy position improving by only five per cent. He said the deal would halt the research programme in the country for exploitation of thorium reserves.

The Marxist leader expected the BJP to continue the deal if it returned to power. The BJP would support the deal because fundamentalism always depended on imperialist policies.

He said the nuclear deal would face the same fate as the agreement of Maharashtra government with Enron which had to be terminated because of overbearing cost overheads in the project.

CPI MP Azeez Pasha and CPI (M) State secretariat member Y. Venkateswara Rao also spoke.

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