Days after attacking the Congress for spending 18 days as part of its Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala, the CPI(M) piped down its criticism, with CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury calling it the Congress’s prerogative to decide “how many days they spend where” though he did not shrink back from hitting out at senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for calling the CPI(M) the “’A’ team of BJP”.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Delhi on Friday at the end of the two-day Polit Bureau meeting of the party, Mr. Yechury said, “Every party has the right to take on their own path. Going to people is a good thing. AAP is also doing it in its own way. How many days they spend and where is their prerogative, but the people will of course draw their own conclusions.”
To another question specifically pointing out Mr. Ramesh’s tweet calling CPI(M) the “’A’ team of BJP”, he hit out by saying, “Kerala is the only State where BJP has zero legislators. And who did this? It is the Left Democratic Front that stopped the BJP’s expansion in Kerala. And as far as A or B team is concerned, they should look at Goa before levelling such allegations.”
