With no Left candidates,comrades vote for BSP in Delhi

CPI(M) sources said that the party’s state unit had given the go-ahead to its cadres to vote for the BSP,except in South Delhi,where the CPI had a candidate,in tune with the party’s line to support non-Congress,non-BJP secular parties. Left allies Forward Bloc and RSP were also in the race,but were curiously pitted against each other in Chandni Chowk.

While Karat and fellow Politburo member M K Pandhe had no option but to vote for a non-Left candidate,their PB colleague Sitaram Yechury was lucky,as he was a registered voter in the South Delhi constituency and could cast his franchise in favour of CPI nominee Shrichand Tanwar.

“We voted for the CPI candidate in South Delhi. In other seats,we voted for the candidate belonging to a secular party and capable of giving a fight to both the BJP and the Congress and their allies,” CPI(M) state secretariat member Vijender Sharma said.

Sources in the CPI(M) said the party did not issue an open direction this time around because such a move could prove to be an embarrassment given the fact that many of the BSP candidates are money bags.