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Left parties to meet in evening to decide stand on Prez issue

Will declare their stand after UPA announces its candidate

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Press Trust of India Kolkata

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee today said that the four Left parties would meet in Delhi this evening to decide their course of action in the Presidential election.

"I will not comment on it now. Let the four left parties decide. They will sit in Delhi to decide their course of action in the Presidential election," Bhattacharjee, a CPI(M) politburo member, told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar organised by CPI(M) student wing SFI.

UPA's probable Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee had telephoned him and Left Front chairman Biman Bose yesterday seeking support.

Left Front chairman Biman Bose said that the Left parties would declare their stand after the UPA announced its candidate.

 

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First Published: Jun 15 2012 | 2:47 PM IST

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