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Hyderabad, (Deccan Chronicle): The four major Left parties on Sunday stressed the need to create and present a third alternative before the people. Leaders of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc came together on the occasion of the 20th Party Congress of the CPI held here.

Delivering the inaugural address, the CPI general secretary, Mr A.B. Bardhan, said every effort should be made to build a left-democratic alternative to the Congress as well as the BJP through common struggles on people’s issues. Mr Bardhan also warned that the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal was an attempt to cap a strategic partnership.
“We have no problems with the India-specific safeguards agreement, but our opposition is to the Indo-US nuclear agreement as such,” he said.

Echoing this, the CPI(M) general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat, pointed out that the Left parties had been in the forefront of the struggle against the deal and would continue to oppose any military collaboration with the US. All the Left leaders stressed the need to wage a battle to protect India from the “strategic embrace” of the US. They slammed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for wilfully violating the National Common Minimum Programme. At the same time, the leaders of the Left parties patted themselves on the back for “acting as sentinels of people’ interests” in preventing the handing over of vital control of the financ- ial sector to foreign capital or opening up the retail trade to FDI.

Mr Bardhan pointed out that the so-called economic growth had bypassed the common people. “Lives of middle class people have gone awry because of the soaring prices of essential commodities,” he said. The CPI leader added that the agrarian crisis had led to 1.5 lakh farmers committing suicide in the last 10 years. “We will intensify land struggles in Andhra Pradesh and other states,” he said. Fraternal delegates from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Japan, China, the US, Canada, France, Germany and other countries are also attending the five-day Congress.

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