New Delhi, March 21: The Communist Party of India(CPI) has indicated that it will not go to the extent of pulling down the government at the centre.

Talking to newspersons in Hyderabd on Friday ahead of the party's 20th National Congress to be held from 23rd to 27th March, CPI national general secretary A B Bardhan made it clear that review of support to the UPA government was not on the agenda of the meeting.

However, he expressed concern over the UPA government's 'pro-US' foreign policy and economic policy leading to skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.

Stoutly opposing the foreign policy, he contended the government was getting closer to the US military through 'strategic partnership.'

Bardhan also expressed shock over the government's ''military relations with Israel, US's military outpost in West Asia.''

Ruling out forcing mid-term polls on the nation, he opined ''the elections (to the Lok Sabha) is still an year away. Of course every party has to get ready for it.''

Stating the party was not ''underestimating the dangers posed by the ''communal forces like the BJP, which was hoping to return to power at the Centre,'' he said ''the BJP is counting the chickens before they are hatched."

The CPI was working for emergence of a third alternative to the Congress and the BJP, he said adding ''we will interact with the UNPA constituents in this regard.

''The third alternative has to emerge through people's struggles. We will certainly take into account the sentiments of those secular parties which are fighting both the Congress and the BJP. We will draw them into the people's struggles,'' he said.

Referring to the loan waiver scheme announced by the Centre for small and marginal farmers, he said the limit had to be increased from the present five acre and a distinction made between wet and dry areas.

The government must address the larger issue of freeing farmers from private money lenders with the constitution of a Debt Relief Commission and ensure cheaper credit, farm inputs and remunerative price for the produce, he added.