PR sends Allu to CPM
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hyderabad, Oct. 11: The Telugu Desam and the Praja Rajyam are now vying each other to align with the CPI(M). The Marxist party has emerged as the most sought after party in the state for forging alliances against the Congress. The Praja Rajyam leaders who ignored the CPI(M) state secretary, Mr B.V.Raghavulu’s deadline over poll alliances, intensified their efforts to win the support of the CPI(M).
This became evident on Saturday when none other than the producer-brother-in-law of Chiranjeevi, Allu Aravind was rushed to Delhi to hold discussions with the CPI(M) general secretary, Mr Prakash Karat. The PR, which was non-committal on its stand over an alliance with the BJP all this while, on Saturday categorically said it was averse to join hands with the national party. The PR spokesperson Mr Parakala Prabhakar said: "The PR is a secular party and we won’t align with the BJP."
On the other hand, irked by Praja Rajyam leadership’s vigorous efforts to forge alliance with the CPI(M), the TD leadership also intensified its efforts to keep the Marxist party in its proposed grand alliance. The TD leaders held telephonic discussions with the top Left leaders to clinch a deal regarding pre-poll alliance. Immediately after Aravind’s meeting with the CPI(M) leaders at Delhi, the TD senior leader Mr K. Ramamohan Rao spoke to the CPI(M) leader Mr Sitaram Yechuri over telephone on Saturday.
According to the sources, the TD leadership tried to coax the CPI(M) top brass so as to move with the TD. Meanwhile, the CPI(M) senior leader Mr Y. Venkateswara Rao said that CPI(M) did not take any decision either to join hands with the TD or with the PR.
"Our Central committee has been pursuing this matter and the decision will be delivered after the Central committee’s meetings which are slated for October 12, 13, 14 at Kolkatta," he added. On the other hand the TD leadership has been exuding confidence that CPI(M) would surely align with the Yellow party.
The TD leader Mr Ramamohana Rao said, "We are sure that CPI(M) would be with us in our grand alliance. The TD and the Left are already moving each other at Centre. Even at the State we are taking up common agitation programmes over the anti-people policies of the Congress government."
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