‘CPM advice to SP exposes Left parties’ agenda’

The BJP said that the communal agenda of the Left has been exposed after CPM's advise to the SP to save Muslim votes.

The BJP on Wednesday said that the communal agenda of the Left parties have been exposed after CP-M’s advise to the Samajwadi Party to oppose nuclear deal to save Muslim votes.

“Left parties have been exposed. The CP-M says Mulayam Singh will anguish Muslim voters if they supported the Indo-US nuclear deal. This is the line they have been pursuing all the time and they are communal,” senior party leader Venkiah Naidu said in Delhi.

“I wonder how could an international issue be linked to a particular religion. Deal or no deal, it has nothing to do with Hindus, Christians, Muslims or Sikhs. The issue has to be decided by taking into account the interests of the nation,” he added.

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“The statement is unfair, unjustified and BJP condemns it,” Naidu said.

M K Pandhe, a member of the CP-M politburo had cautioned Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav that his party might lose the support of Muslims if he decides to go with the UPA on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.

However, CP-M on Wednesday distanced itself from the statement made by Pandhe saying his remarks were not the views of the party.

“Remarks made by M K Pandhe, member, Politburo, on the nuclear deal issue on June 23 are not the views of the party,” party General Secretary Prakash Karat said in a statement on Wednesday.

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