There is more than one reason for CPI-M boss Prakash Karat to be seeing red! First, he may not have foreseen the backstabbing by the Yadav duos – SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad – on the cut motion in parliament last week.
The Yadav leaders stood with Karat till the very last last moment. They even joined 13 parties to observe a nationwide shutdown against price rise April 27, the very day the cut motion was moved in the Lok Sabha. But in the end they ditched their Red colleagues by staying away from the voting.
In fact there is more to infuriate comrade Karat. The Yadav duos are also said to be flirting with Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Left’s enemy number one in West Bengal.
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