MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) denied on Tuesday that amendments it plans to make to its program in November are designed to reform the party along social democratic lines.

"We reject all speculation to the effect that the amendments we are now planning to make to our program document, the main political document of the party, mean a kind of social democratic swing in the activities of the KPRF. This is being said either by people who have a poor knowledge of our document or by wishful thinkers," Dmitry Novikov, the KPRF's ideology chief and a State Duma deputy, told a news conference at the Interfax headquarters in Moscow.

"Social-democratization is not our path, the party has made a clear decision about that," he said.

"Social democracy in Russia has been discredited a good deal today by those who have tried to speak on behalf of it, and one of the phases is marked by the activities of Mr. (Sergei) Mironov (Federation Council chairman and leader of the Fair Russia party)," Novikov said.

The KPRF says a broad discussion will precede the approval of the planned amendments.