NEW DELHI: There are no full stops in the Communists’ pitch for covert or overt tie-up with the Congress when facing larger political challenges.Almost nine years after the Left’s national breakup with the Congress, the CPI has concluded that to fight the “mounting fascist challenge,” the Left will have to tango with the Congress again.Armed with a resolution passed at the national executive last week, CPI leaders led by general secretary Sudhakara Reddy will visit the CPM headquarters on Thursday to try and convince it and the larger Left Front to follow the same approach ahead of the 2019 LS polls to effectively fight the surging political might of the Modi government and BJP ’s expansionist drive, seen especially after the recent assembly polls.The CPI national executive held in Delhi on March 25-26 to analyse the political situation after BJP’s sweeping victories in UP and Uttarakhand concluded that to fight BJP and the Modi government, it needed a larger “platform of democratic, secular and Left parties.”In Left parlance, ‘secular and democratic parties’, when ‘non-Congress’ is omitted, is a code for Congress and like-minded parties. The reluctance of mentioning Congress by name is understandable as the Left rules Kerala and Tripura where the GOP is the main opposition.The fact that CPI has decided to make its own decision is also meant to drive home to allies the party’s determination and clarity on the future path.“The recent CPI national executive meeting passed a resolution underlining the need for the coming together of all democratic, secular and Left parties on a political platform to fight the fascist offensive since the formation of the Modi gover nment,” CPI central secretariat member Shamim Faizee told ET.Asked whether this platform will include the Congress, Faizee said, “we mean all secular and democratic parties”. The phraseology is strikingly similar to the word-play in the run up to the coming together of Left and Congress against the Vajpayee regime in 2004. For the time being, there is no mention of ‘electoral alliances’, but CPI insiders said the issue will “inevitably come up at the time of the next Lok Sabha elections.”It is also learnt that the CPI has started conveying to its lower committees about the resolution. The importance CPI attaches to its plank is evident from the fact that almost the entire party brass are expected to visit CPM headquarters to meet their counterparts in the Polit Bureau on Thursday to hard sell the party resolution.“The political situation after the recent assembly polls warrant the coming together of all democratic, secular ad Left parties to fight Modi government and BJP. We will discuss the issue with CPM leaders on Thursday,” said D Raja CPM may posture against any alliance with Congress but after its ‘understanding’ with Congress in Bengal, such posturing may not count when BJP aggressively targets CPM’s remaining turf. Incidentally, CPM chief Sitaram Yechury visited theCPI headquarters to discuss ways to firm up better coordination of the frontal organisation of both parties.