The four Left parties will hold a joint public meeting in Lucknow on Wednesday, the first in a series they have planned ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The rally will be addressed by general secretaries of CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury, CPI D Raja, CPI(ML) Dipankar Bhattacharya and All India Forward Bloc G. Devarajan. The Leftist leaders will present the Left’s agenda at this meeting.
The Left joint rally comes as the INDIA bloc is still recovering from the embarrassment of having to cancel its first rally, which the coordination committee of the bloc, had announced for September 13 in Delhi. Sources said indecision about the venue for the first rally continues. All eyes are on the Congress to take a lead, but the party is tied down with assembly elections in five states pushing the possible date past December 3rd, when results are scheduled to be announced.
“We are here to give the call for BJP’s defeat and INDIA’s victory. The corporate-communal nexus of the ruling party has to be exposed. This public meeting, is not merely an electoral exercise, it is to put forth the Left’s agenda and stand on several people’s issues,” Mr. Yechury said.
