CPI casts aside Chandy's bid to woo it into UDF fold

The CPI today brushed aside senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy's apparent bid to woo it into the Kerala's Congress-led UDF fold, saying the Left party's "commitment" to the LDF is "unquestionable." CPI national executive member Binoy Viswam said it is "unthinkable" for the party to go for a political alliance with the Congress "as long as it remains wedded with the pro-corporate policies of globalisation." He said this a day after former Kerala Chief Minister Chandy hailed the stand taken by the CPI, a key partner in the CPI(M)-led LDF, on the issue of clearing encroachments from the government land and stated that the people still cherish the party's alliance with CPI in Kerala in the 70s.

Responding to a query on CPI joining hands with the Congress, Viswam told

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