3-day CPI State Council meet begins

The three-day meeting of the State Council of Communist Party of India began here on Sunday.

The main agenda of the meeting is to discuss the prevailing political situation and finalise several agitational programmes to expose the central and state governments' alleged anti-people policies.

Addressing the delegates after inaugurating the conference, party general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said that by organising people's agitations the CPI wanted to strengthen the left democratic forces in all over the country and hoped that the left democratic forces would show the right direction to the people of the country.

Sudhakar Reddy remarked that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre was a sinking ship. No new party joined the UPA since the last general election and, on the other hand, several partners were thinking of deserting the alliance. At this rate, the very existence of the UPA after the next general election would be in question, he said.

The CPI leader said the BJP-led NDA was also in the same situation. "The RSS and the BJP have serious differences over projecting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as NDA's prime ministerial candidate. Modi's name was proposed by the RSS but several BJP leaders opposed the RSS' proposal. The RSS, in turn, warned the BJP that a section of leaders were ready to desert the party if Modi was not projected as prime ministerial candidate,'' he said and claimed that it was the right time to unite and strengthen all the left democratic forces.

Party leader K Aruna presided over the inaugural meeting. State secretary K Narayana was on the dais. K Ramanarsimha Rao moved the condolence motions.