'CPI(M)'s decision to support Pranab correct'

CPI(M) leader and former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Saturday, said that his party’s decision to support UPA’s presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee is correct in the backdrop of the current political situation.

“Our party’s support to UPA’s presidential candidate is not new. In the past when Indira Gandhi had wanted us to support her party’s nominee V V Giri in the presidential election in the greater political interest, we did so despite sharp difference with her policies,” Bhattacharjee told a party convention at Dum Dum. He, however, said CPI(M)’s support to Mukherjee’s candidature did not mean that its fight against Congress’ economic policy and other policies would cease.