Communist Party of India and Congress may have a seat sharing understanding only in Telangana for the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, CPI general secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy told to the media. This could be the first time ever in the country he added.
The CPI supported for Telangana and the CPI (M) was for a united Andhra Pradesh. In Telangana, it was proposed that the four secular parties (CPI, TRS, Congress, and New Democracy) should contest jointly because of the peculiar situation there.With a split in New Democracy, it decided to go out of this platform and unfortunately, TRS has declared candidates for 69 constituencies.
The CPI wants to contest in 12 Assembly constituencies out of the 119.As for Lok Sabha elections, it wanted one out of the 17 seats in Telangana.In the rest of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, the CPI and CPI (M) are trying to come to an understanding for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.“All over the country, we are sure our (Left) position will improve in Parliament,” he said. The CPI wants change in policies from pro-corporate to pro-people. We want a transition from the present policies.
