The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) has demanded the Left parties withdraw support to UPA government as the Centre was 'rigid' on operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
KOLKATA: The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), a constituent of Left Front, has demanded the Left parties withdraw support to UPA government as the Centre was 'rigid' on operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"It would be expedient of the Left parties to consider withdrawal of support to the UPA government. And the four Left parties should sit together and take a uniform stand," senior RSP leader and party's central committee member Manoj Bhattacherjee said.
He said his party wanted withdrawal of support to the UPA government not simply because of the Indo-US nuclear deal but also because of its 'failure' to implement the Common Minimum Programme.
The RSP leader was reacting to the CPI(M) central committee ratifying the party's Politburo consensus in asking the UPA government to press the pause button on the nuclear deal with the party general secretary Prakash Karat saying that the future of the UPA coalition lay with the government.
Another junior partner of the CPI(M)-led Left Front, Forward Bloc said, "The question whether the UPA government will fall depends on the way Congress and the Prime Minister behave."
Forward Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh told reporters that the party state committee would meet here on Sunday to decide its stand.
Asked to comment on CPI(M)'s stand that it did not want the current crisis to affect the government, CPI state secretary Manju Kumar Mazumar said his party's national executive meeting would be held on August 28 and 29 to take stock of the situation and the Congress's 'determination' to operationalise the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"India's sovereignty cannot be mortgaged to the USA through signing of the Indo-US deal. We want a rethink of our support to the UPA government", he said.
The Centre has also failed to implement the Common Minimum Programme, curb rising prices of essential commodities and prevent suicides by farmers, Mazumdar, who is the CPI's national executive member said.
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