Cong-Left a 'temporary arrangement': Gurudas

Criticising the Centre's policies, senior CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta today said the gap between the Left and UPA was widening and there was a possibility of mid-term elections.

"The gap of understanding and depth of differences between the Left and UPA government is widening. There is a possibility of elections soon," he told a news conference here.

Dasgupta, who is All-India Trade Union Congress general secretary, termed the UPA a "temporary arrangement" and said the Left was trying to get more concessions from it.

He said AITUC activists would picket Parliament House on November 23 and hold a nationwide strike on December 14 to protest setting up of SEZs and policies on labour and petro price hikes among other issues.