‘This time too, a Front will emerge... there will be a new regrouping... ideal would be to have a majority without Cong... allies in UPA would be rethinking’

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Sitaram Yechury, CPM politburo member

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Hello and walk the talk. I am Shekhar Gupta and my guest today is the man always in the thick of action today even more so. Sitaram Yechury, CPM politburo member, welcome to walk the talk.

Thanks Shekhar.

Of all the public figures I know, your life seems to be the most fun.

Well, I enjoy it thoroughly, which is why I am doing what I am doing. And I think that is the way one should take life.

You have seen your politics evolve?

Of course. I mean you started out with idealism, wanting to change society, wanting to change things for the better. That is the motivation. But things have evolved. We have grown up. That was the time of single-party rule in the country and nobody really thought of coalitions ever being the order of the day. But once they started happening in the 1990s, we knew that Indian democracy is maturing.

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Politics has got fragmented, our growth rates have got better.

Not just growth rate, I think it is a process of maturation. You cannot have a social plurality that is as wide as we have in India and have a political monolith. Your social diversity has to reflect in your politics.

A political monolith which for 40 years did not even have real dissidence, except once in 1969.

Precisely, 1967-69 was the period. This is a process of maturation, which is very exciting. The largest democracy in the world — to deal with such diversity and its reflection on politics is...

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Congress Appasement PolicyBy: B.N.Mandhar | 29-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward We Indians belong to Senior Citizen Forum,Michigan,USA, living her ever since the inception of Indian Republic (26.1.1950) consequent upon devastating and blood-soacked partition of India (15.8.1947) on the basis of communal-oriented Two-Nation-Theory praded by muslim league of Jinnah-Liaqat combine and greedily grabbed by power-hungry Congress leaders. We are very sad at the muslim appeasement policy of the Congress/UPA combine of Manmohanji,Laluji,Paswanji,Yechuryji,Parkash Karatji,Chidambramji who always hun gry of muslim voters but they do not bother about Hindu/Sikh voters - they are taken for granted perhaps. To garner muslim votes, Manmohanji says 'muslims have fiorst claim on national resources of India in 2008 while speaking on the Sachhar Committee Report(by now popularly known as muslim report) and the impartial media in Indian Express is all quiet. PM repeats the same dialogue with immunity in the election meeting in North-Centre Mumbai on 22.4.2009 and impartial Express media is quiet once again. Laluji violating Model Code of Conduct sayas "had he been Home Minister he would have crushed Varun under the roller without bothering about him being a BJP candidate speaking in favour of Hindu/Sikh. None bother(FEARLESS AND INDEPENDENT EXPRESS MEDIA INCLUDED)ABOUT HIS MUSLIM APPEASEMENT UTTERANCESBUT MEDIA SHOUTS ABOUT VARUN GOING TO JAIL. Paswanji tells Laluji after 2004 elections in Bihar Assembly that he would support Lalu's RJD provided a muslim is made Chief Minister of Bihar but fearless and independent Express Media(famous from Arun Shorie's days) is once again silent like deep sea. When will Indian voters understand and when will fearless and independent Express Media will be awake so that they can fight this muslim-appeasement stance of Congress /UPA combine? Perhaps,soon enough!

If Mayawati!By: Natraj | 27-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward If Mayawati becomes our next PM, I will forgo my Indian Citizenship, with all seriousness. Absolutely bemused by these political parties and leadership. A bunch of 60 to 70 year olds running a country with an average age of under 25. Absolutely irresponsible people. :(

Sitaram is rightBy: A Raghunath Reddy | 27-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward Sitaram is right in telling that NDA as a coalition survived because it set aside it's Hidutva ideology. UPA, to prove itself as a realistic coalition, should have set side Nuclear deal because Left, as a responsible outside supporter, was against it. A non-congress, a non-BJP alternative is possible. Better to wait till the election resuts are announced.

No idealogy but only opportunismBy: Chandrakant Marathe | 20-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward In the entire interview I find absolutely no idealogy but only one purpose that is to grab power by hook or crook. If CPM had any idealogy then it could have only alligned with the like minded parties. Today CPM is ready co-operate with any party which would support them in forming government. Such a dispensation will have only one idealogy for being in power and making good money.

sytupidity or greedBy: Jay | 20-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward Is it not a height of stupidity to do the same experiment again and again and expect different result? Or is it the height of greed to let the country and people suffer for personal political ambition?

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