| The CC also endorsed the Politburo's decision last month to do, along with other Left parties, a performance appraisal of the two years old UPA regime and prepare a note on it. The note will be submitted at the UPA-Left coordination committee meeting on June 15. |
| "It's mainly about the economic policies and pro-US foreign policies that we are opposing," party General Secretary Prakash Karat said in Hyderabad. The party will wait for the government's response. |
| "At Hyderabad, we discussed our overall relationship with the UPA and where we agree and disagree. The Left parties will accordingly prepare a note to be submitted to the government," said senior CPI(M) leader Nilotpal Basu. |
| According to him, all issues including FDI in retail, pension reforms, privatization of airports and disinvestment of PSUs, came up for discussion, "but that was in the general context of our relationship with the UPA". |
| "We did not go into details," he said clearly indicating no change in the party's stance on these issues. |
| Not that the Left parties are hoping any change in the policies of the UPA government in response to their note, which is expected to be quite terse. |
| They cared no more, if the deliberations at the CC meeting gave any indication. They would rather take the opportunity to distance themselves from the UPA's policies and take their differences to people. |
| Starting with the June 13 All India Protest Day, the Left parties will undertake a series of agitation programmes against the UPA's policies that are expected to culminate only around the next general election. |
| "Through such agitations, a regrouping of forces may emerge which may culminate into a third alternative that opposes neo-economic policies and fundamentalism," Karat said. |
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