No more tie-up with UPA: Karat

The Comunist  Party of India (M) on Tuesday ruled out possibility of an alliance or tieup with the Congress in future.

`` We will not have any further discussion on that topic. No alliance or united front with the Congress," Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said at a press conference at the end of a four-day Extended Central Committee meeting of the party here.

''In  2004  we  supported the  UPA only on one  point that is to keep Bharatiya Janata Party out of  power,'' he said.

 Karat supported his party’s withdrawal of support to the UPA government in 2008 on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal.  He asserted that it was "correct and necessary.''

Asked if the "timing" of the withdrawal of support was wrong, he said, "The question is not about the timing. We should have done it at a time when we could have stopped the nuclear deal.''