Being part of the UPA, the communist cannot take an escapist attitude from the ills facing the country or the inflation. What is the advice they had given as inputs to reign in inflation? Street demonstration, bandhs, strikes? Shame on them who cannot think otherwise! The charge sheet should boomerang on them! As for independent foreign policy, they do not have the right to speak on foreign policy, who had supported the Chineese in 1961 war and during the World war II. The communists are worthless stuff to be thrown in the Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean. It had already started stinking!