CPIML-L seeks common minimum programme from new Bihar govt

August 10, 2022 20:47

The Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist-Liberation on Wednesday said it is seeking a common minimum programme from the new Bihar government while promising outside support to it.

The party which has a dozen MLAs in Bihar assembly and was a key player in the drama surrounding Nitish Kumar's move to embrace the `Mahagathbandhan', said that it will work to provide a bridge between the civil society's demands and the new government in the state.

"We are proposing that a common minimum programme of the new government be created," Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the CPIML-L said at a press conference held here on Wednesday.

"We do not wish to be in the ministry," Bhattacharya said, while promising "creative and critical cooperation from outside" to the new government in Bihar.

He said that the party will provide policy inputs and help the government in policy making and implementation.

"If the government moves in this direction as an anti-BJP dispensation should, then certainly our cooperation will be there," he said.

Asked about Nitish Kumar's track record of switching allies, Bhattacharya said that he would not comment on the past or future possibilities but only about the present.

"The question is not Nitish Kumar, but the BJP," he said, adding that the saffron party has put itself in such a position that its own leaders like Yashwant Sinha left the party and its long-standing ally Nitish Kumar had to part ways with it.

Bhattacharya said that at present no support is with both hands, but is relative to the present situation in the country where he claimed the BJP is trying to establish a one-party system.

Bhattacharya said that the party's Bihar state committee will meet on August 13, where he and other leaders will be present. -- PTI

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