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“Let the proposal come in (from Congress), than we will respond after a due deliberation,” he added. He said, “Religion cannot be the basis to provide Indian citizenship. The country should have a religion neutral approach to give citizenship to the refugees.”Replying to a question, Karat said there has been no talk with the Congress as far as political alliance for Lok Sabha polls is concerned. JAMSHEDPUR: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), which is already a constituent of the opposition mahagathbandhan in the state for the upcoming assembly polls, on Monday said such a coalition at the national level is not practical and the anti-BJP parties should solely focus on state-specific alliances to beat the NDA in the upcoming general elections.Addressing a press conference here, senior CPM leader Prakash Karat argued that contradictions among alliance partners will prevent setting up of a mahagathbandhan to fight BJP at the national level. He said, “Almost 12,000 farmers committed suicide annually between 2014 and 2017 which is a sign of the government failing the farming community to provide them their due rights.” Quoting from the 2018 report of the Centre for Monitoring India Economy (CMIE), Karat claimed that over one billion jobs are lost due to “faulty economic policies” of the Modi government.He said, “The alarming jump in the unemployment rate of the educated youths in the country today is unparallel if we match up with the annual unemployment rate of the last 20 years.”On the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019, the ex-general secretary of CPM said his party is opposed to it..