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| I am still a Marxist and will campa |
| I am still a Marxist and will campaign for Left, says Somnath
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| INDIA
, 23-April-2011
2:32:16 AM |
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Putting behind the bitterness over his expulsion from CPI(M), at least for now, former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee plans to campaign for the party in the Assembly elections as he still feels he is a Marxist.
He attacked Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee charging it with "harping on change" but not giving any clarification on what their agenda was.
Coming out to bat for his former party at an election meeting tomorrow, Chatterjee's gesture to his former party comes even as CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat has said that leaders like Chatterjee and noted economist Dr Ashok Mitra were "welcome" to campaign for the Left parties in West Bengal.
In an interview to PTI here, Chatterjee said, "I have just agreed to attend a meeting at the request of (Bengal Housing Minister) Gautam Deb. He had approached me to speak for him before the people and I accepted his invitation
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