After BJD in Orissa, Left parties are now eyeing another NDA ally with senior CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday holding discussions with JD-U leader and NDA convenor Sharad Yadav.

The CPI-M on Saturday finalised its strategy aiming at installing non-Congress and non-BJP government at the Centre after Lok Sabha elections and said it would ask "secular" allies of NDA and "anti-privatisation" constituents of UPA to help forge a third alternative.

The CPI-M on Monday asked the government to immediately enact a law to deal with lay-offs, saying large-scale retrenchment in various sectors was being apprehended in the near future due to the impact of global recession on the Indian economy.

Attacking BJP and a section of the media for advocating a US-type response to the Mumbai terror attacks, the CPI(M) on Thursday said such a move would only result in what terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) want.

The Left parties on Sunday virtually rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's desire to work with them in future and asked him to reverse his government's economic policies.