No direction from Central committee on July 27 bypoll: Yechuri

Hyderabad, Jul 10 : Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Sitaram Yechuri today washed his hands of the July 27 bypoll in Andhra Pradesh, saying the state committee will decide on the possible direction for voting by its party cadres in Telangana region.''The Central Committee of the party has not given any direction (to its party cadre in Andhra Pradesh) on voting for the byelections in 12 assembly constituencies later this month,'' Mr Yechuri, who was to attend the state committee of the party, told media here.The CPI(M) was not contesting in the July 27 elections, he said, admitting that it did not have strength in the 12 assembly constituencies where elections were being held.The CPI(M) was the only party in Andhra Pradesh which was openly opposed to the formation of Telangana, he said, maintaining it was for the unified Andhra Pradesh. However, in the last elections, the CPI(M) was a part of the TDP-led 'Mahakutami,' the grand alliance of the non-Congress parties in which Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party, with a single point programme of creation of separate state, was a partner.
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