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CPI(M) secretary makes light of Keshava Rao’s claims on alliance

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Spirited campaign: CPI(M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu collects donation in a Hyderabad city bus on Saturday.

HYDERABAD: Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu made light of Pradesh Congress Committee president K. Keshava Rao’s statement that the two parties would sail together in the 2009 elections.

“Let them first solve the issues, land issue in particular, raised by the Left parties; we can think of the elections later,” he said.

Mr. Raghavulu also refused to accept Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s claim that the AICC president Sonia Gandhi gave a clean chit to the Congress Government in the police firing at Mudigonda firing as it was for the Congress high command to make its stand public.

He was speaking to reporters here on Saturday after collecting donations from the people for helping the families of victims of the police firing.

The CPI(M) and CPI have started mobilising contributions from the people both within the State and outside as part of efforts to provide relief to the victims’ families.

Mr. Raghavulu said the Congress was trying to give a political twist to the land struggle by raking up the understanding between the two during the previous elections.

The Left was, however, not prepared to fall into the “Congress trap” by responding to their claims.

Citing the Chief Minister’s remark that the demand for his resignation was on friendly terms, Mr. Raghavulu wanted to know whether the firing on the agitating people at Mudigonda was also a friendly gesture.

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