Left: The CPI(M) denounced the verdict and demanded intervention by the UPA government to get it rescinded. “The Politburo denounces the death sentence to president of Iraq, Saddam Hussain,” the CPI(M) Central Committee said in a statement. CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta condemned the death sentence given to Hussain. “It is just a caricature of judicial justice, sheer mockery of democracy,” he added.-PTI