India's leading communist parties, in recent times, have found themselves confronted with a difficult dilemma: to balance their opposition to some of the centre's economic policies with an equal and sometimes greater concern to preserve the UPA government in the interests of secularism. However, as seen in their respective party congresses, both Left parties are not above issuing renewed threats for a ?Third Front? to keep the government on its guard.
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