New Delhi: The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is asunhappy with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime it supports in NewDelhi as it is with the Left Front governments it partners in West Bengal,Kerala and Tripura.

But the RSP will not withdraw its support to the CommunistParty of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front, RSP parliamentary party leaderAbani Roy said firmly.

The party, which last week threatened to withdraw itssupport to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, has differences with itsLeft comrades on the issue of special economic zones (SEZs) - while the issueis a prickly one, it has assumed serious proportions in West Bengal withprotests over land acquisition for industrial projects galvanising huge crowdsin Nandigram and Singur.

Despite the conflict over SEZs and support to theCongress-led UPA regime, the party, which has three MPs, will not backtrackfrom the Left Front.

"No, no, that question does not arise because it is wewho have gone through a lot whenever the Left has been attacked. So we aredoing everything to strengthen the Left Front," Roy told sources.

He strongly defended his party's anti-Congress line, whichis perceptibly stronger than his senior Left partners'. "There are somedifferences even between the Communist Party of India (CPI) and CPI-M. We aretotally opposed to the SEZ.

"They did it according to their political line. We goby our political line. Even while extending support to the UPA government, wehad taken our decision two days after the CPI and CPI-M announced theirmove,"he said.

"We also went to the CPI-M office and narratedeverything to them, including the problems in West Bengalwe face at the moment. They want a correction and amendment in the SEZ Act,while we want its total repeal,"he said.

Referring to the RSP's disenchantment with the UPA, he saidthis government was not for poor sections, farmers or workers in organised andunorganised sectors.

"Nor has this government taken any action on thecommunal front against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For how many days willwe continue this support?"he said.

According to Roy,issues like price rise were raised in the Left-UPA coordination committeemeetings, but government decisions did not reflect the Left position.

As he sees it, economic policies remain the same, whoeverthe leader at the helm is, "Whetherit is Sonia Congress, Manmohan Congress or Pranab Congress, there is nodifference. There is no sign of the 'aam aadmi', the common man. The real factis that the poor are becoming poorer and the rich richer."

"If they are doing something good for the people, theyshould not be losing in the states going to the polls. But they are going tolose in Punjab and in Uttarakhand. And inUttar Pradesh, they have made no progress so far,"he said.

While Punjab goes to thepolls on Feb 13 and Uttarakhand on Feb 21, no dates have been announced for theUttar Pradesh poll yet.