By IANS
Kolkata : West Bengal Left Front chairman and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Biman Bose Tuesday discounted the possibility of a midterm general election, saying his party had only sought a discussion on the Indo-US nuclear deal in the parliament.
“We have made our stand absolutely clear on the issue. We don’t want an interim election. We have sought a discussion in parliament under section 193 which does not entail voting,” Bose told reporters at Kolkata airport before going to New Delhi to attend the party’s central committee meeting on Aug 22-23.
“If a discussion takes place under this section, there will be no possibility of the fall of the government,” he said.
Bose however said the CPI-M will never accept the nuclear deal as it undermines the sovereignty of the country.
Veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu had also ruled out the possibility of an interim election Monday.