Urgent need for reunification of the Left: CPI

With the Left parties turning in their worst-ever performance in Lok Sabha elections in over six decades, veteran Communist leader Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy Friday raised the pitch for their reunification.

Reddy, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), said his party has always been suggesting that the unity of the Left movement is the need of the hour and still feels so.

"Of course, that's not the only solution (to revive the Left). That will give more confidence among the ranks of Left movement in the country," he told PTI.

Asked if there was a need to give a push to the efforts of reunification following the debacle of the Left in the elections, Reddy said: "Yes, all the Left parties should think of it. There is an urgent need to rethink at the earliest."
Reddy termed the Left drawing a blank in West Bengal as a "very big setback."