The universal service has been a key part of the UK post for 170 years but, because it isn't the profitable element of mail, privatisation will put it at risk.
Prakash Karat, the general secretary of the CPI (M), the most important party within the group, is, like Mr Ramesh, adamant that full-scale privatisation of profitable public enterprises is not on the agenda.
Under sweeping privatisation policies, they appropriated profitable public enterprises and vast areas of state-owned lands.
Britain's national network has never been profitable, and in the years since privatisation costs have exploded.
The airline's emergence as the world's most profitable airline in the mid-1990s, a decade after privatisation, may simply have been a phase in the industry's development.Even restored to health, BA will be lucky to have made £200m ($295m) before tax in the year just ended (well below the £640m it made at its peak).
Labour will reverse this privatisation at the earliest opportunity, because it is a profitable company that should still be giving a return to the many not the few, and because key national infrastructure like a postal system is best delivered in public ownership.
Sometimes called Margaret Thatcher's favourite businessman - though that should not be held against him - he was remembered at a memorial service last week as the man who steered British Airways through privatisation and made it, for a time, the most profitable carrier in the world - indeed, the world's favourite airline.
By the time of this latest election, the BJP's privatisation programme was restricted to selling off minority stakes in profitable businesses to eager buyers.This suggests that there is plenty of reason to hope for better from the new team.
One of the key concerns over privatisation is its impact on the news operation, which is not profitable.
Captured by neoliberal ideology and the FIRE sector, government has no interest in stopping this immensely profitable yet dangerous gravy train, having enriched the already wealthy beyond avarice through privatisation of unearned economic rents rather than productive activity.
