CPI to decide on joining Govt on Sunday

CPI who has been backing the candidature of Sonia for prime ministership has said it will decide on joining the Cong-led Govt on Sunday.

Backing to the hilt the candidature of Sonia Gandhi for prime ministership, the Communist Party of India on Saturday said it will decide on joining the Congress-led government at the Centre on Sunday.

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"The question is should we extend support to the government from outside or should we also be a part of it. A decision in this regard will be taken at the conclusion of the party's two-day national executive meeting tomorrow," CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan told reporters.

Bardhan hoped that by then, other constituents of the Left block like CPM, would also decide on the issue.

Pointing out that his party had no objection to Congress President Sonia Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister, the veteran CPI leader said the people of the country have rejected the foreign origin issue.

"It was J Jayalalitha and Narendra Modi who had raised the issue of Sonia's foreign origin and people in the two states have given a decisive mandate against them," he said.

He said the CPI had accomplished the first of its two part approach to the polls, that of defeating the communal forces led by BJP and "now we have to see that the government functions properly."