Retired, Basu not in tune with party
CPM veteran Jyoti Basu on Friday evaded a question on the issue, but said the Left had not changed its stand.
By ET Bureau |
KOLKATA: At a time when the CPM top brass in Delhi has renewed its threat to withdraw support to the UPA government amid the standoff over the nuclear deal, CPM veteran Jyoti Basu on Friday evaded a question on the issue, but said the Left had not changed its stand.
Asked whether the CPM would pull the plug on the Congress-led UPA government, Mr Basu dodged a direct reply, but said: ���The Left parties are sticking to their stand on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. I have been told that the Congress is trying to evolve a compromise formula. But I don���t know what that will be and I also don���t know what will happen to this government ultimately.���
Mr Basu was talking to newspersons after attending the CPM state secretariat meeting at the party headquarters on Alimuddin Street on Friday. The CPM top brass in Delhi stressed that they would withdraw support to the UPA government if it took the next step to finalise the India-specific safeguard agreements with the IAEA.
The West Bengal CPM, it is learnt, does not want any immediate Lok Sabha elections as the party has suffered an electoral setback in the May panchayat elections in the state.
Asked whether the CPM would pull the plug on the Congress-led UPA government, Mr Basu dodged a direct reply, but said: ���The Left parties are sticking to their stand on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. I have been told that the Congress is trying to evolve a compromise formula. But I don���t know what that will be and I also don���t know what will happen to this government ultimately.���
Mr Basu was talking to newspersons after attending the CPM state secretariat meeting at the party headquarters on Alimuddin Street on Friday. The CPM top brass in Delhi stressed that they would withdraw support to the UPA government if it took the next step to finalise the India-specific safeguard agreements with the IAEA.
The West Bengal CPM, it is learnt, does not want any immediate Lok Sabha elections as the party has suffered an electoral setback in the May panchayat elections in the state.
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