Karat says Yechury didn't offer to quit even as CPI(M) chief claims he did

Yechury wants to keep door open for electoral understanding with Congress but Karat's draft has ruled out any truck with the Congress, but supports alliances with regional parties

The factional fight within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) soured further on Tuesday and underlined how the feud was increasingly less about the dispute over party’s electoral line in the forthcoming elections, and shaped more by the personal rivalry of senior leader Prakash Karat and current party chief Sitaram Yechury.

In an interview to a news website on Tuesday, Karat denied that Yechury had offered to resign as the party chief after the central committee of the party had rejected the draft presented by him at its meeting in Kolkata over the weekend. Karat, the former party chief, also