THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 18: The CPM decision to give issue-based support to a Congress-led government does not envisage a political alliance between the two parties, a senior Marxist leader has said.CPM politburo member V S Achuthanandan said his party wanted to extend issue-based support to the Congress to utilise the earliest opportunity to oust the BJP-led government which, he said, had become a ``grave threat'' to national unity and communal amity.``But no intelligent person will take this as the CPM having entered into a political alliance with the Congress whose policies the party has been opposing for years,'' he said.All the same, the Congress could not and would not go to to the extent of endorsing all that was being done by the BJP, Achuthanandan said, adding the CPM offer of issue-based support was based on this perception.He said the Congress, for its survival in power, had "often pandered" to majority and minority communal forces and asserted the CPM would not hesitate to have rethinkon its approach to the congress if it did not give up its old ways of "appeasing" communal forces.Achuthanandan said the CPM was capable of reacting sharply if the Congress sought to "humiliate and isolate" his party on account of its "independent and well-meaning approach".
