New Delhi: Left parties have decided to participate in the meetings of the UPA Coordination Committee, which they had been boycotting on the issue of BHEL?s disinvestment.
Leaders from all the four Left parties - CPI, CPI(M), Forward Bloc and RSP - supporting the UPA government disclosed their decision to end the boycott after their meeting in New Delhi.
The Left parties held a meeting after UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter conveying the government decision that the BHEL disinvestment has been kept in abeyance.
However, the Left parties reiterated their dissatisfaction with the government's economic policy at the beginning of the meet.
According to them, BHEL is not the only issue on which they had suspended participation in the Coordination Committee.
The red brigade had described the government?s BHEL move as the "first major violation" of the coalition goverment's CMP.
They wanted the government to adhere to the CMP which spoke of strengthening the profit-making PSUs instead of privatising them.
The other issues on which the Left have been expressing reservation include those related to FDI in various sectors.
These include retail trade and the moves towards privatisation and dilution of government stake in PSUs.
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