Mulayam tries to mend ties with Left
NEW DELHI: The long overdue meeting
between Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and CPM general secretary Prakash Karat took place on Tuesday amid
speculation that the two discussed possible post-2014 election scenario.
Karat said, "We discussed the current political situation especially efforts of RSS, VHP to create communal tension. We decided to do something about it." The two parties have decided to bring together non-political eminent secular people who can work towards defusing the communal situation. Karat said, "Together we will work out something in the coming days."
Sources said Yadav thinks communal situation would worsen in the coming days across the country. He is believed to have told Karat that the SP has a minimal presence outside Uttar Pradesh and would like to come together with secular political parties and non-political to fight communalism.
Karat denied any discussion took place on possible political situation before and after the 2014 general election, sources said the two parties are not averse to coming together if the political situation so demands. The two have shared a tumultuous relationship over the past over one decade with CPM at the receiving end of a series of SP's realpolitik decisions, much to the Left parties' chagrin. On a day-to-day basis also the SP has always come to the rescue of the UPA. Even on Monday CPM leader Sitaram Yechury pointed out how mutually antagonistic parties like SP, BSP, RJD and JD (U) come together to bail out the Congress-led UPA. He said it a new kind of political alignment to curry favour with the Centre.
Even though the SP's trust quotient within the CPM is no longer what it used to be during Harkishan Singh Surjeet's time, the principal Left party, which is no longer at its best in West Bengal, realizes that for a greater relevance in national politics it would have to have a working relationship with secular outfits like the SP.
The CPM expects the next election could provide the best chance for non-Congress, non-BJP parties to form the government. So far Karat has refused the CPM would support a Congress-led government at the centre. One scenario the CPM is looking at could be that the Congress supports a government of secular parties in which the SP chief could play a crucial role.
Karat said, "We discussed the current political situation especially efforts of RSS, VHP to create communal tension. We decided to do something about it." The two parties have decided to bring together non-political eminent secular people who can work towards defusing the communal situation. Karat said, "Together we will work out something in the coming days."
Sources said Yadav thinks communal situation would worsen in the coming days across the country. He is believed to have told Karat that the SP has a minimal presence outside Uttar Pradesh and would like to come together with secular political parties and non-political to fight communalism.
Karat denied any discussion took place on possible political situation before and after the 2014 general election, sources said the two parties are not averse to coming together if the political situation so demands. The two have shared a tumultuous relationship over the past over one decade with CPM at the receiving end of a series of SP's realpolitik decisions, much to the Left parties' chagrin. On a day-to-day basis also the SP has always come to the rescue of the UPA. Even on Monday CPM leader Sitaram Yechury pointed out how mutually antagonistic parties like SP, BSP, RJD and JD (U) come together to bail out the Congress-led UPA. He said it a new kind of political alignment to curry favour with the Centre.
Even though the SP's trust quotient within the CPM is no longer what it used to be during Harkishan Singh Surjeet's time, the principal Left party, which is no longer at its best in West Bengal, realizes that for a greater relevance in national politics it would have to have a working relationship with secular outfits like the SP.
The CPM expects the next election could provide the best chance for non-Congress, non-BJP parties to form the government. So far Karat has refused the CPM would support a Congress-led government at the centre. One scenario the CPM is looking at could be that the Congress supports a government of secular parties in which the SP chief could play a crucial role.
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