Referring to the political resolution taken up for discussion at the party central committee meeting being held at the party headquarters, Mr Yechury said there was a thinking in the party that the Manmohan Singh government should get the original bill on women's reservation bill in the winter session of Parliament.

"The government should also take fresh initiatives to double the spending on agriculture and education. The spending on education is just 0.9 per cent of the GDP. It is just dismal," he added.

On the government to further effect a hike in the fuel prices, Mr Yechury said the government should not overburden the people in this way. It should instead rationalise taxes on these as Rs 23 out of Rs 40 per litre petrol in Delhi went in the form of taxes.

Ms Karat said the party would launch a nationwide struggle this month to demand better management of the PDS, land rights of the people and women's issues.

On the emerging political scenario, the party's central committee members opined that as the NDA was "weak and wrecked from within", the Left parties should make every effort to wean them away from the motley group headed by the BJP.

Talking to UNI, the CPI-M parliament group leader, Mr Basudev Acharyia, who is also the central committee member, said, "Even as no formal talks had taken place with the disgruntled secular allies, but they were welcome if they swore by certain policies and programmes in the larger interest of people and participate in the mass struggles. The BJP allies in the NDA have already started deserting it."

The CPI-M, while supporting the all India industrial strike organised by the trade unions on September 29, the central committee members said they would also agitate on the issues of employment and food for work.

In reply to a specific query when the Left parties would resume their participation in the UPA-Left coordination committee meetings, Mr Yechury said, "There were indications that the UPA chairperson would issue a formal clarification that the navratna PSUs will not be disinvested."

In reply to another query, the CPI-M senior leader said, "The Left will oppose any government's move to allow `hire and fire' policy for the employers and any other violation of labour laws.

"Any such situation will explode as has been in the case of Honda company in Gurgaon where not only the workers were denied their fundamental right to form union and forced to give an undertaking that the workers will not move the court for the redressal of their grievances."

To another question on Telugu Desam Party chief, Mr Chandrbabu Naidu's attempts to form a third front of regional parties, he said the Left parties did not believe "in any cut-and-paste morcha for electoral gains".

He clarified that the third front concept must be based on opposition to NDA's communal approach and the negative impact of economic policies of the Congress. However, there was no such move in the immediate future, he added.

On Bihar developments, he said his party would make every possible attempt to forge larger unity of secular forces so as to prevent the division of secular votes.

While he parried away questions on differences between the CPI and the CPI-M on Bihar elections, he chose to state that while the Congress, the RJD and the LJP could work together at the Centre, why they could not do at a state level.