00837pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002200040245004200062260000900104300001600113362001000129520047400139650002200613650002200635773003400657180718b2005   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBanerjee, Sumanta  aHobson's choice for Indian communists  c2005  ap.1935-937.  a7 May  aIndia's leading communist parties, in recent times, have found themselves confronted with a difficult dilemma: to balance their opposition to some of the centre's economic policies with an equal and sometimes greater concern to preserve the UPA government in the interests of secularism. However, as seen in their respective party congresses, both Left parties are not above issuing renewed threats for a `Third Front' to keep the government on its guard. - Reproduced.  aPolitical parties  aPolitical parties  aEconomic and Political Weekly