Left parties would meet in New Delhi on Thursday to decide on resuming participation in the meetings of the United Progressive Alliance coordination committee, which they had started boycotting after the government decided to dilute its stake in BHEL which has now been put on hold.
The meeting of the Left parties comes in the wake of the letter written to them by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, conveying the government's decision that the BHEL disinvestment has been kept in abeyance.
BHEL issue in cold storage: Cong
The Left parties are likely to formalise their response to Gandhi's letter at the meeting tomorrow, sources said.
The parties, they said, were not fully satisfied with the government's economic policy direction, saying BHEL was not the only issue on which they had suspended participation in the Coordination Committee. The government's BHEL move was described by them as the "first major violation" of CMP.
They wanted the government to adhere to the CMP which spoke of strengthening the profit-making PSUs instead of privatising them.
The other issues on which the Left have been expressing reservation include those relating to FDI in various sectors, including retail trade and the moves towards privatisation and dilution of government stake in PSUs.
But the sources said the parties, providing crucial support to the government from outside, are likely to favour resuming participation in the coordination committee in order to effectively raise their differences in that forum.