Prakash Karat

Karat refuses alliance with UPA after general elections

Prakash KaratNew Delhi, July : Communist Party of India (CPI-M) General Secretary Prakash Karat today refused any possibility of any party alliance with the United Progressive Alliance even after general elections due next year.

He said: “It is all over with the Congress. We will not go with the Congress-led UPA even after next polls.”

Karat also made it clear that Bahujan Samaj Party Chief Mayawati was not their prime ministerial candidate for the coming polls.

He said: "Our current relationship with the BSP is an electoral adjustment."

Independence of India's foreign policy in jeopardy, warns Prakash Karat

Kolkata, July 6: Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) General Secretary Prakash Karat has warned the UPA Government that it runs the risk of sacrificing India's independent foreign policy, i

Left will not withdraw support from UPA despite fuel price hike: Prakash Karat

New Delhi, June 5 :Left will not withdraw support from UPA despite fuel price hike: Prakash Karat

Karnataka poll results a reflection of UPA’s performance: Karat

Prakash Karat Kolkata, May 26 : CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat sai

Communist stand on nuke deal remains unchanged, says Karat

Coimbatore, Mar 29 : Prakash KaratCommunist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat today said that the Left Front’s stand on the nuclear deal was unchanged and would remain the same.

Elaborating further, he said that the Left’s stand was not to allow the deal to proceed further.

The Left Front has been quite adamant on its stand on the nuclear deal. The two main parties of the Front -- the CPI and the CPI (M) -- have disfavoured the signing of the deal in its present form, even as the deal has been a bone of contention between the Left and rest of the UPA.

Congress dismisses CPI-M's demand for a fresh mandate on N-deal

New Delhi, Feb 11:Congress party today dismissed CPI-M demand civil nuclear deal. "Congress believes no fresh mandate is needed," AICC spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi told reporters here.

Earlier today, Karat said that the Left would not allow the government to forge ties with the US, including on nuclear pact.

He demanded that the Congress party should seek a fresh mandate if it wanted to forge a strategic alliance with America and go ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal.

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