'All-party meet an eyewash'

KOLKATA, JULY 8. The leader of CPI(M) Parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, said the all-party meeting convened for Monday by the Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee, ahead of his coming summit meeting with Pakistan President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was nothing but an `eyewash.'

``Everything from which hotel the Pakistan President will stay to the issues to be discussed has been finalised. The all-party meeting is only an eyewash. It is the policy of the BJP-led Government,'' Mr. Chatterjee said while addressing a press conference on the recent visit of Left Front MPs to the trouble- torn Manipur.

The Centre did not consult any party or the State Governments in the north-east before extending the Naga ceasefire beyond the borders of Nagaland, he said and added ``we oppose this.''

- PTI, UNI

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