Cong, CPI (M): Comrades in Parl arms, relationship status unknown outside

At one point, CPI (M) MPs like Mohammed Salim and others were also seen holding placards given to them by the protesting Congress MPs

Even as Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat battle out whether their party should enter into any electoral understanding with the Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Congress parliamentarians were long lost comrades in arms in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The CPI (M) is in the midst of an intra-party battle over its future ‘political tactical line’. The dispute is whether it should enter into any direct electoral understanding with the Congress. There is no disagreement on its alliances with the Congress in the states, as long as a regional party is also involved, for example