Left urge UPA to correct or face consequence : Yechuri
AGARTALA, Sep 24 (UNI): The Left Parties will not compromise on divestment in Navratna companies and the Prime Minister's letter, expected on these issues, should mention the government's intention regarding the profit making organisations.
This observation was made by CPI(M) Politbureau member Sitaram Yechuri to newsmen here last night.
"The UPA government and its leaders should correct themselves on the economic issues, otherwise the left parties will go to the people against the government's policies and programmes," Yechuri said.
The left parties, he added, were getting unprecedented response from across the country on the September 29 nation-wide strike.
"We are trying to create popular mobilisation to mount pressure on the government to run it in the right direction," he said.
Yechuri, along with another Politbureau member and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and other leaders, yesterday addressed a huge gathering at Ambassa in Dhalai district.
The rally was organised in connection with the 12th state conference of the DYFI, the CPI(M)'s frontal youth wing.
Blaming the CPI and Lok Janshakti Party of Ramvilas Paswan for creating a third front in Bihar, Yechuri said such an effort can only weaken the secular forces and help anti-secular parties.
"Both CPI and LJP will be responsible if the NDA partners bagged more seats in the coming Bihar Assembly elections," he stated.
On the issues of North-Eastern states,Yechuri said following continued pressure of the CPI(M) the government reconstituted and strengthened the North Eastern Council(NEC), fenced the Indo-Bangla border.
The government was putting pressure on Bangladesh to dismantle terrorist camps in that country.
Reacting to the 'revelation' in the book, 'The Mitrokhin Archive 11: the KGB and the world,' he said Pramode Dasgupta was the architict of the Communist party in West Bengal and the charge against him was 'malicious'.
"Our West Bengal party has decided to go to court against the baseless report quoting the Mitrokhin Archive that former West Bengal CPI(M) state Secretary Pramode Dasgupta was recruited by the Intelligence Bureau in 1947," he added.
It was known to all that the CPI(M) was born maintaining equidistance from both CPSU and the Chinese Communist Party, Yechuri pointed out.
His remarks came after the classified materials, compiled by former KGB man Vasily Mitrokhin and smuggled into the West in 1992 also claimed that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a recipient of KGB funds.