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PATNA: CPI(ML) is not averse to aligning with the RJD led by Lalu Prasad, said the general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya, on Sunday. “Everyone knows what they did to him recently in Uttar Pradesh,” he added.Dipankar said the 2019 parliamentary elections would be fought on the issues and problems facing the farmers. He can make a number of somersaults which can be rewarding in athletics, but not in politics,” Dipankar said.He maintained that among all the political parties, only the Left groups have been consistent in their struggle against “Modishahi and only the RJD has taken a consistent line against it”. “The Congress has to decide if it would align with the Left and the non-Left parties against ‘Modishahi’ in the country,” he said.Dipankar said the important question was not what Pranab said at the RSS function, but that if the RSS would “show similar magnanimity to also invite former vice-president Hamid Ansari”. The party’s state secretary Kunal accompanied him.Dipankar told the party workers that it had become incumbent upon the Left to align with the non-Left political entities for the “short-term aim of ending the rule of PM Modi”, but the CPI(ML)’s long-term commitment to socialism, class struggle fight against “all kinds of ruling ideologies” would continue.He said former President Pranab Mukherjee’s address at the RSS function had left the Congress demoralized..