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Yechury does not rule out support to UPA
May 04, 2009 16:27 IST
Despite Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat [Images] having categorically ruled out support to a Congress-led government at the Centre again, senior party politburo member Sitaram Yechury [Images] said on Monday that the party's next step would be decided only after the elections. "We will decide what will happen post-election, but right now our objective till the elections are over is the third alternative. However, we do not think the need to support a Congress-led government will arise," Yechury told a press conference here. Asked about Karat's statement in Kolkata recently that the Left would not extend support to a Congress-led coalition again, Yechury said, "I do not know in what context he had said this. We will meet and decide what will happen post-election." Yechury said the Congress leaders were openly saying after the third phase of the elections that they would take support of the Left if the opportunity to form a government arose. "But this is an admission of their realisation that they are not coming back to power. Our objective is to form a Third Front government and we are confident about that," he said. Asked if the Left was approached to support a Congress-led coalition minus Manmohan Singh [Images] as the prime minister, he said they were not concerned about individuals, but issues.
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