00888pab a2200169 454500 180718b2005 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Banerjee, Sumanta Hobson's choice for Indian communists 2005 p.1935-937. 7 May India'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. Political parties Political parties Economic and Political Weekly 65060 65060 65060 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 40, Issue no: 19 AR65512 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR