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

“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.