By IANS
Agartala : The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday said it would take a firm decision and chalk out strategies on the Indo-US nuclear deal during its four-day meet to be held in Kolkata over the next weekend.
The crucial CPI-M politburo meeting is due Friday, and will be followed by a three-day central committee meeting.
“The meetings would finalise the party’s final stand before the Left-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) mechanism committee meeting on Oct 5,” CPI-M Central committee member Bijon Dhar told journalists here.
“We are not soft about the deal despite the country’s huge energy requirement,” Dhar added.
He denied media reports of any differences in opinion within the CPI-M ove the party’s stand on the issue.
“There are no differences between the central and state leaders over the necessity of nuclear or any other energy,” Dhar said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and his predecessor Jyoti Basu recently favoured nuclear power as one of the sources for meeting the country’s future energy requirements, triggering a debate on the Left’s nuclear policy that is strongly opposed to the nuclear deal with the US.
Dhar said the meetings would outline the party’s political resolutions to be adopted in the 19th party congress, due in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu March-end.
“Before the party congress, the conferences of all state committees across the country, excluding poll bound Tripura, would be completed by February next year,” he said.
The Kolkata meeting would also discuss the current political situation in the country, including the Sethusamudram project controversy.