Left parties to support each other in 14 seats

January 31, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:34 am IST - NEW DELHI:

The Left parties announced on Friday that the CPI, CPI (M), CPI ML (Liberation), SUCI (C), Forward Bloc, RSP and Socialist Party (India) have come to a seat-sharing arrangement, and will be extending support to each other in 14 seats across the Capital. They said they will be highlighting the issues of Delhi’s working poor, which the Left parties have consistently championed and struggled for.

They alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party were indulging in a venomous communal campaign in order to divide the people and deflect the growing discontent against their government into disruptive channels. They said that the BJP-RSS have made cynical attempts to engineer communal violence in Bawana, Trilokpuri, Sriram Colony, Nand Nagri, Madanpur Khadar areas of Delhi and their aim was to polarise people on communal lines for electoral gains.

They said that the issues of the working class and Delhi’s poor that had come to the fore in the last elections have again taken a backseat even in the Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign. This is because the AAP is unwilling to enunciate any alternative policy framework and is stuck in the same neo-liberal trajectory due to which the basic problems of the people are not being addressed.

“Issues of Delhi’s poor have taken a backseat even in

AAP campaign”

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