08-23-2007, 12:47 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is confident that he can go ahead without Left support, he should have categorically told us to go,'' a senior CPI(M) leader said.
<b>Party insiders feel that at this juncture, the Congress is afraid of a mid-term election with people suffering the onslaught of price rise and reform policies which have benefited only a few handful. "It only tends to strengthens the stand taken by all Left parties and Karat,''</b> he said.
Although the CPI(M) also knows that in the event of a mid-term poll the party might just lose out in terms of MPs, but "ideologically, we'll have nothing to lose,'' insiders said.
Thus if election becomes an inevitable choice, let the Congress decide it instead of going to poll by blaming the Left, the CPI(M) leader said, adding "meanwhile we are not changing our stand that on the 123 Agreement.''
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<b>Party insiders feel that at this juncture, the Congress is afraid of a mid-term election with people suffering the onslaught of price rise and reform policies which have benefited only a few handful. "It only tends to strengthens the stand taken by all Left parties and Karat,''</b> he said.
Although the CPI(M) also knows that in the event of a mid-term poll the party might just lose out in terms of MPs, but "ideologically, we'll have nothing to lose,'' insiders said.
Thus if election becomes an inevitable choice, let the Congress decide it instead of going to poll by blaming the Left, the CPI(M) leader said, adding "meanwhile we are not changing our stand that on the 123 Agreement.''
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