Amid talk of a “third front’’ at the national level to bring together non-Congress and non-BJP parties, Communist Party of India State Secretary K.Narayana on Thursday ruled out a truck with the YSR Congress for elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assembly.
Addressing a press conference here, he said his party would prefer to fight the elections on its own strength in the State instead of “aligning with a party led by the corrupt Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy for the sake of some seats.”
Flays CPI(M) stand
“There is no scope for a tie-up with the TDP, which is moving closer to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance,” he added.
“It is sheer hypocrisy on the part of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to hold talks with the YSR Congress to explore possibilities of an electoral understanding even while asserting that the CPI(M) is for larger Left unity,'' he said, referring to a delegation of the YSR Congress meeting CPI(M) leaders in New Delhi recently.
On the view that the YSR Congress and the CPI(M) had taken the same stand on statehood for Telangana, he recalled that the CPI(M) too had an electoral understanding with the Congress and the TDP in 2004 and 2009, respectively, even as both these parties had a truck with the TRS, which championed the cause of statehood for Telangana.
