"The Left and the democratic movement do not depend in anyway on the issue of support to UPA's presidential candidate," he said.
To a question, he said that Mukherjee met MPs and MLAs of the CPI-M and Forward Bloc and MLAs of the DSP and Samajwadi Party and thanked them for extending support to him. "We also thanked him for meeting us," Mishra said.
On the Trinamool Congress-Congress tussle issue helping the CPI-M as well as the Left, Mishra said, "Such a difference has been brewing for a long time and we knew that any rainbow alliance will not be permanent. However, the CPI-M will not depend on what will happen to the ties between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress. We depend on our own strength and our own plans and programmes."
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