CPI-M plans a coalition with Congress and TIPRA to defeat BJP in coming assembly polls: Sitaram Yechury

Ahead of assembly polls, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said that his party is ready to make seat adjustments with Congress and the tribal party TIPRA to defeat the ruling BJP in the coming assembly polls in Tripura.

He said that the Central Committee had criticised the Bengal unit of the party for forming a political front not the seat adjustments with the Congress and other secular parties.

Yechury said that prime target is to defeat BJP in the assembly polls and for this formation of an alternative secular and democratic front is necessary.


He said, “Forming a political front is an alliance. Seat adjustment aimed to pull maximum votes in favour of the secular parties. In the CPI-M’s 23rd party Congress (held at Kannur in Kerala) a suitable electoral tactical policy was adopted to fight against the BJP and RSS. We are seeking secular parties’ unity,” the CPI-M general secretary told the media after the party’s two-day state committee meeting.

Yechury said that the Left parties fought against the Congress along with the elements now in power for promulgation of the emergency in 1975, but now for the sake of democracy, communal harmony and secularism, unity of all secular parties including the Congress are crucial to fight against the BJP.

Tripura is going to assembly polls shortly.