The debate on nationalism is an attempt to divert people's attention from important issues like drought, price rise and unemployment, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy alleged.
"Who are you to introduce this new scale (on nationalism)? How can you, who support corporates, be patriots? All this is a third rate attempt to divert public attention from drought, price rise, unemployment, their failures, and waning popularity. It has nothing to do with nationalism," he told reporters here.