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New Delhi, June 14 (UNI) The Left parties today submitted an exhaustive note to the government ahead of tomorrow's UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting, soliciting ''written assurances'' on the issues of FDI in retail, foreign policy and social security for unorganised workers in order to pin down the Congress-led coalition on the specifics.

The comprehensive note running into nine pages, which also contains key areas of differences between the two, was submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this afternoon.

A copy of the note, which analyses the two-year performance of the UPA government, was also given to Congress chief and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

''We want issue-to-issue debate and clinch it as well. No more hanky-panky business,'' CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan told UNI.

CPI(M) senior leader Nilotpal Basu said the contents of the note would be the basis of deliberations at the UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting to be held at the Prime Minister's official residence tomorrow evening.

The note was finalised at a joint meeting of the Left parties - CPI(M), CPI, Forward Bloc and the RSP - yesterday morning.

Left leaders said the note highlighted pending promises on the the Women's Reservation Bill, Unorganised Workers' Bill and the Bill for the welfare of tribals besides disagreement on the agrarian crisis, disinvestment, the decision to open up retail trade to foreign companies and the attempts to allow foreign banks to pick up stakes in private doemstic banks.

''We want a written response from the UPA governmentm,'' Mr Bardhan said.

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