By IANS
Kolkata : Left Front patriarch Jyoti Basu Monday ruled out the possibility of an interim election as a fallout of the discord with the Manmohan Singh government over the Indo-US nuclear agreement.
“There is no possibility of an interim election. We would discuss the issue in parliament before the Lok Sabha speaker under a provision which does not entail voting,” Basu said after attending a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretariat meeting here.
“The CPI-M politburo is unanimous about their stand against the Indo-US nuclear deal. A central committee meeting has been called on Aug 22-23 in New Delhi to discuss the issue inside the party,” Basu said.
“My party members who met at the recent politburo meeting have unanimously taken a stance and I can’t go away from that,” he told reporters, at the party’s state headquarters at Alimuddin Street, adding the matter would be discussed in detail at the central committee meeting.
The Left parties’ opposition to the nuclear deal and its stance that the Congress-led government would have to pay a political price if it went ahead with it has presented the ruling United Progressive Alliance with its biggest crisis ever.