"We will like a discussion in Parliament. Since the winter session is going to be held this month we are not insisting on a discussion under a resolution that entails voting. Views of Parliament must be elicited," CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said.

The UPA-Left committee will meet on November 16, he said, adding, "We will see what will be done in the committee."

Addressing a press conference at the party office here, Karat said, "We will try to arrive at some conclusions."

Karat said, "we have been meeting the UPA partners and other secular parties to try to arrive at a common approach to the deal."

All the parties have expressed themselves against the deal and "from that one can make an assessment about the general sense of Parliament," he said.

"I have not talked of withdrawal of support to the government. Government has maintained that it will take a stand on operationalising the deal taking into account the findings of the committee," he said.

"You will have to wait for the UPA-Left Committee meeting on November 16. There could be another meeting," he said.

The CPM general secretary said his party was prepared to give ‘as much time as necessary’ to discuss the ‘vital matter’.