Briefing the media on the deliberations of CPI(M)'s central committee meeting, party general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet said the government should immediately announce that India would neither weaponise nor deploy nuclear weapons.

The CPI(M) plans to launch mass campaigns culminating on August 6, the anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima, Japan.

In view of the next round of talks between Indian and US interlocutors beginning here tomorrow, the CPI(M) warned the BJP against ``capitulating'' on India's long-standing position of not acceding to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

It urged the government to take immediate initiatives to improve relations with India's neighbours and reduce tensions in the neighbourhood which the party alleged wereaggravated due to the BJP's ``nuclear jingoism''.

The CPI(M) said it was for the Congress to decide if and when it wanted to dislodge the BJP-led alliance at the Centre.

``The Congress should realise where they stand. They have to keep their party alive,'' Surjeet said.

Accusing the BJP of pursuing its own agenda, he said the national agenda for governance was merely for ``public consumption''.

While construction for the proposed Ram temple at Ayodhya was going on in Rajasthan and Ayodhya, the party was persisting with its ``efforts to spread communal poison'', the CPI(M) said.