CPI(M) not deliberating on poll alliance in WB now: Yechury

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury today said the party is currently not discussing the issue of alliance in poll-bound West Bengal even as he charged the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP with indulging in "match-fixing".
The Polit Bureau (PB) and the Central Committee (CC) of the CPI(M) will take an appropriate decision on electoral alliances in the state at an appropriate time, he said.
"CC and PB, we have said, will take an appropriate decision at an appropriate time. We are not discussing alliances now," Yechury told PTI here when asked about demands from some CPI(M) leaders for a tie-up with the Congress in the polls to take on TMC.

The Central Committee and the Polit Bureau are likely to meet next month, he said.
Talking to reporters earlier, Yechury alleged a "straightforward match-fixing" between BJP and the TMC.
"Trinamool Congress says 'save us from CBI inquiry'. BJP says 'support us in Parliament'. It is a straightforward match-fixing," he said.

As for the CBI issuing notice to a Trinamool MP in connection with the ongoing inquiry into Saradha chit fund scam, Yechury said some TMC leaders are already in jail and that one more is added to it.
"Now, the Centre has to do the job. That is where the agreement is done between TMC and the Centre," he alleged.

Meanwhile, he also condemned the terror attack on a prestigious university in Pakistan's restive northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, in which at least 25 people were killed and 50 others wounded.
"What this (NDA) government is doing to check cross-border terrorism (from Pakistan)," Yechury asked.