A Left-United Progressive Alliance coordination committee meeting has been convened in Delhi on February 13 in which the Left parties will raise the issue of privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports and the Iran issue, a senior Communist Party of India-Marxist leader said in Kolkata Monday.
Earlier, February 8 had been proposed as the next date of the coordination committee meeting, politburo member Anil Biswas said adding, the party general secretary Prakash Karat informed him over phone that the meeting would be held on February 13.
"Since the CPI-M politburo is meeting on February 9 and 10 in Kolkata, February 13 had been tentatively fixed for the meeting. If the meeting does not take place on February 13, it will be held on February 14," he said.
Asserting that CPI-M would not withdraw support to the Manmohan Singh government, Biswas said, "We have extended support to the Congress-led government not out of love for it but because of political compulsion, one of the main factors of which is to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party at bay."
He however said, "The CPI-M is not at the moment thinking in terms of a Third Front or a political alternative at the Centre as the forces which could be taken into a Third Front alternative had weakened."
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