New Delhi: Despite the fiasco over the Presidential nominee, the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) is confident that the People's Front will be reorganised uniting non-Congress Opposition parties willing to oppose communal forces.

"The choice of Kalam is not on the basis of his merits or achievements. The choice was dictated purely with the objective of disrupting the Opposition unity," politbureau member Sitaram Yechury says in an article in the forthcoming issue of the "People's Democracy", the party organ.

On the falling apart of the People's Front, he says if a constituent like the Samajwadi Party chose to support a NDA candidate then it negated the rationale of its formation.

"The People's Front, however, will now be reorganised, uniting all non-Congress political forces willing to consistently and sincerely oppose the communal forces," he adds.

Asserting that the Left was opposing Kalam because he is a candidate fielded by the NDA, he says it was necessary that the President of India is well versed with the political intricacies, particularly when fractured verdicts have become the order of the day.

"The post of President is not a reward for achievements. The President has to discharge many important responsibilities," he wrote.

Stating the elections were being held under the shadow of "state-sponsored communal genocide" in Gujarat, he says Left candidate Lakshmi Sehgal's legacy was the "true nationalism which united people of all religious affiliations."

PTI