STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE
New Delhi, 31 October
The CPI today said the recurrence of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar (UP) yesterday showed that communal forces had an upper hand in the region and the UP government had failed to take “sufficient” action in the wake of similar incidents in the district recently.
  Briefing reporters about the 28-30 October meeting of the party National Council, the CPI general secretary, Mr S Sudhakar Reddy, said the recent incidents in Muzaffarnagar were the “outcome of the well-planned conspiracy of the Sangh Parivar to create cleavage among the Jats and Muslims in western UP”.
Mr Reddy said the national council reviewed the communal situation in the country and noted that while the BJP had come under the grip of the RSS, and returned to its agenda of Hindutva, the UP government too “miserably failed to take timely preventive measures”, and its laxity led to the spread of the trouble to rural areas.
 The CPI leader, Mr Atul Anjaan, said action must be taken against the District Magistrate and senior police officers. He added that the Rapid Action Force (RAF) must be deployed as the communal forces had an upper hand in the area. Mr Anjaan said the party had noted that three lakh people had to take shelter in camps when similar communal violence took place in Assam.
Mr Reddy said the national council took stock of the preparations for the coming Assembly and Lok Sabha polls too. He said the party&’s electoral tactics would be “to go in for state-specific poll alliances and seat adjustments with the view to have a strong Left bloc in the new Lok Sabha, that can play a key role in formation of a non-Congress, non-BJP alliance in the post-poll period”.   The CPI leader said several secular parties could not attend yesterday&’s convention against communalism. One reason for this was that participation was restricted to only one representative from each state.as the regional parties had strong differences on issues pertaining to their states, and this could reflect at the convention.
In MP and Delhi, the CPI is contesting limited number of seats in cooperation mainly with the CPI-M.