Friday, September 15 2006 11:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bhubaneswar: The CPI (M) yesterday (Sept 14, 2006) said it was concerned about the UPA government's failure to control prices of essential commodities.

''If the Government fails to hold the price line, the Left will reconsider its support to the Manmohan Singh-led government,'' CPI (M) state politburo member B. Raghabalu said here.

''Without the support of 61 Left MPs, the government will collapse,'' he said.

Addressing a public meeting organised by the CPI (M) here, Raghabalu said that the matter had been discussed at the party's politburo meeting which concluded in Kolkata yesterday.

"It would be again thoroughly discussed at the party's Central Committee meeting in New Delhi on September 24 next," Raghabalu said.

The CPI (M) leader hit out at the Orissa Government's industrial policy saying, 'instead of giving prime land to industrial companies, it should distribute it among poor landless families'.



The state CPI (M) secretary, Janardan Pati, who also addressed the rally called for emergence of a third alternative in the state to the Congress and the BJD-BJP ruling coalition.

''The CPI (M) is not a big party in Orissa and may not be having the capacity to form an alternative, but it will help consolidate the alternative like-minded democratic parties,'' Pati said.

Earlier, party activists took out a colourful procession in the town before converging at the venue of the rally which was also addressed by state secretariat member Ali Kishore Patnaik.