Kerala Assembly polls | Defeating BJP, its allies single-point agenda of CPI(M) and Left parties, says Yechury
The Hindu
‘It is different from State to State as to how you achieve the objective of defeating the BJP.’
Defeating the BJP and its allies is the single-point agenda of the CPI(M) and the Left parties in the elections to four Assemblies and the Union Territory of Puducherry, says CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who’s campaigning in Kerala for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) led by his party which is seeking the mandate to retain power. Edited excerpts from an interview:
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