CPI-ML(L) to abstain from voting in Prez polls  Patna: CPI-
ML(Liberation) will abstain from the July 16 presidential polls,
its general secretary Deepankar Bhattacharya said on Sunday.
Defending the party's decision, Bhattacharya said the
presidential poll is not merely election of a person to the top
post but also a vote for policies and programmes of political
parties contesting this election.  CPI-ML(L), he said, has
decided to abstain from the presidential election as it
disapproved of policies and programmes of both UPA and NDA.  The
party does not support UPA's presidential candididate Pranab
Mukherjee as he is part of the incumbent central government
whose economic and foreign policies pushed the country to severe
economic crisis and presided over a series of scams, besides
meekly surrendering before the U.S and its policies.  The NDA is
no different from UPA as its policy decisions on economy,
foreign, agriculture and trade while it was in power at the
Centre were detrimental to the interests of the