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Pat from Jyoti Basu

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KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Friday spoke to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar over telephone and congratulated him on the Left Front’s massive win in the Assembly elections.

The Left Front victory signifies the victory of the Left’s alternative policy at the national level, said Biman Bose, chairman of the Left Front committee in West Bengal.

“Through this massive victory, the people of Tripura have rejected the anti-people economic policies of the Congress and the compromises made with the United States over the nuclear deal,” Mr. Bose, who is also the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of the CPI(M), said in a statement.

By giving such a verdict “the people of Tripura have defeated attempts by the forces behind the nexus between the Congress and separatist forces to derail the democratic process and moves to ensure peace and development in the State,” he said, adding that the victory would further strengthen the Left unity in the country.

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