There seems to be agreement within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] over the kind of understandings it should have with other political formations going by the tenor of discussions on the second day of its 23rd party congress under way here.
Almost all of the two dozen delegates who spoke about the draft political resolution on Thursday favoured the line that recommends a coming together of the Left and democratic forces at the State-level, depending on the political character of each State. This position discards any possibility of a pan-national alliance.
This was made amply clear by the party general secretary Sitaram Yechury as well when he told the media that never in India’s electoral history had there been a pre-poll alliance that formed a coalition government.
