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No scope for 'blackmail' by Cong, BJP: Yechury on Third Front

Hyderabad: Regional and Left parties are working for a majority on their own in the next Lok Sabha, sans support from Congress or BJP, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said today.“No, I am saying that

PTI Updated on: May 05, 2014 17:45 IST
“It is not only political combination for power....in the sense of just forming government. It's a combination for implementing alternative policies.”

Asked about “inherent contradictions” in such a combination as SP-BSP, CPI(M)-TMC or DMK-AIADMK could not join the same platform, Yechury said, “That's why I am saying, all these issues will be discussed post-elections. That's our objective.”

The CPI(M) leader recalled that every ruling coalition was formed after the elections, including the UPA, the NDA and the United Front.

“I think in 2014 also, it will also be the same—a coalition to be formed after the elections,” he said. To a question whether the Congress or the BJP could be trusted after the experience of governments led by Charan Singh, V P Singh, Deve Gowda and I K Gujral, Yechury said that would again depend on the actual numbers.

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