Coimbatore: CPI has announced that the party was walking out of the DMK-led alliance on Thursday.After a meeting with party functionaries in Coimbatore, CPI state secretary M Veerapandian told reporters that given the current political situation in Tamil Nadu, there was no scope for CPI to be part of alliance. “It is impossible for us to be in the DMK front in the current circumstances,” he said.DMK responded stating that party would continue its political journey irrespective of support from other parties. “If they are with us, we will travel together. If they not with us, we will go alone. If they are against us, we will fight back,” said DMK organisational secretary R S Bharathi. Bharathi also noted that CPI said it was unable to continue in the alliance now, but has not ruled out future alliance.The announcement comes days after CPM, another Left ally of DMK, declared cessation of ties with DMK. CPM state secretary P Shanmugam said that neither a DMK alliance nor a Secular Progressive Alliance existed in Tamil Nadu.With Congress having walked out of the DMK front and DMK declaring it will not be part of the INDIA bloc, there is no scope to contest elections as a unified front in the state, he said.However, Veerapandian said the Left considered DMK, AIADMK as well as TVK as democratic forces while RSS and BJP are their sole political adversaries. “We will continue to wage an uncompromising ideological battle to safeguard the nation’s diversity and secularism,” he said.Veerapandian said extending external support to TVK does not imply that the party will cover up the govt’s errors. “CPI will monitor TVK’s functioning and oppose its mistakes,” he added.
