People's Democracy(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol. XXXVII
No. 30 July 28, 2013 |
Sitaram
Yechury Denies Signing
Petition Sitaram Yechury, leader
of the CPI(M) group in Rajya Sabha
and member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, has issued the
following statement on
July 24, 2013. THERE
is news circulating
that I am a signatory to a petition to the It
is neither in my
character nor in the principles of my Party – the
Communist Party of India
(Marxist) – to petition any sovereign country on matters
that fall strictly
within the sovereign domain of that country. It is this
very principle that leads
us to strongly oppose and denounce any external
interference into Much
of this controversy is taking place in
cyberspace. The
one circulating in cyberspace now,
many months after it was allegedly signed, is typed on
the letterhead of a member
of parliament which carries the insignia of our national
symbol, the Ashoka
Chakra. The
heading under which some
signatures are appended says, `Names and Signatures of
Indian MPs’. Strange. Which other
country’s MPs would sign
on the letterhead of the Indian Parliament? This, itself,
suggests some efforts at
cut and paste.