Wednesday, May 18 2005 16:45 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will prepare a balance sheet of its achievements during its past one year in office and release it on Sunday (May 22, 2005) when it completes its first year in power.

"The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) -Left Coordination Committee has divided the review of its performance in six phases. After going into each phase, the UPA will discuss with its constituents and supporting parties as to what has been achieved and what needs to be done before preparing the balance sheet," CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury said.

He was talking to reporters half-way through the meeting of the UPA-Left Coordination Committee at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Yechury said the meeting discussed the promises made in the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) and reviewed how many of them had been fulfilled and what required to be done.

Asked if any particular time frame had been set for meeting the targets, he said every aspect of the NCMP has certain time frame and the purpose of the review was to find out how much had been done within that time frame and how much was outstanding.

Asked whether CPM would take part in the first anniversary celebration of the UPA Government on May 22, Yechury said, it was for UPA to celebrate the completion of one year in office.

"We are only supporting the Government from outside on the basis of NCMP," he said.

On the demand for resignation of Railway Minister Laloo Prasad made by Forward Bloc and RSP (Rashtriya Samajwadi Party) in the wake of fresh charges framed against him, he said, "A precedent has been set by the previous NDA Government that unless a person is convicted, he is innocent. This is NDA stand. That stand is continuing."