Left judgment on Govt coming

Hyderabad: Left Parties would soon submit a note to the UPA-Left Coordination Committee on the Central Government's performance and "what needs to be done".

"We will prepare a comprehensive note detailing policies being pursued by UPA and our approach and views of Centre's performance during the past two years," said CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat after his party’s three-day Central Committee meeting.

Karat denied that the tie-up with UPA had affected the party and said: "It was not visible in the Bengal and Kerala assembly elections. We succeeded in keeping communal forces at bay."

On efforts of building an alternative front, he said, it could emerge from "joint struggles" and his party was ready to provide a democratic platform.

"The CPM will launch a national campaign in August and hold 200 public meetings highlighting the need for pro-people economic policies and the dangers of fundamentalism which will create a general agreement among people and parties," he said.

The Central Committee has expressed concern at the fall in production of foodgrains and the Centre's move to slash the quantum of foodgrains in Public Distribution System (PDS).

"We will not allow any cuts in PDS, which on the contrary should be strengthened," he said.

The party has condemned the stepped up violence of the extremist groups, which massacred more than 30 people in Doda region and urged the state and central governments to take effective steps to check such violence while pursuing the political process, he said.

Expressing concern over the foreign policies, CPM alleged that Manmohan Singh government continues to pursue foreign policy which was pro-American.

"The government has not criticised US manoeuvres against Iran nor has it condemned the Israel-US effort to harass Palestinian people for electing the Hamas government by stopping financial grants," he said.

The decision to join Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline has also been taken in line with US interests, he said adding, that the party will oppose Indo-US military collaboration.