June 20, 2012 9:05 PM

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Left parties meeting tomorrow to take decision on supporting Pranab

Top leaders of Left parties are meeting in New Delhi tomorrow to take a decision on the issue of supporting UPA Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury and S Ramachandran Pillai (CPI-M), A B Bardhan, Sudhakar Reddy and D Raja (CPI),Debabrata Biswas and G Deverajan (Forward Bloc) and T J Chandrachoodan (RSP) will attend the meeting.

Prior to the meeting of Left parties, the CPI-M Polit Bureau is also meeting in the capital where the issue of Presidential poll will be discussed among other subjects.

Top leadership of UPA has already spoken to Karat and Bardhan seeking their support for Mukherjee.

The Presidential poll, slated next month, was also discussed in the recent CPI (M) Central Committee meeting, which authorised the Polit Bureau to formulate the party's strategy on the election after discussing the issue with other Left and like-minded secular parties. Left parties account for around 51,000 vote value in the electoral college of 10.98 lakh vote value.

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