Left for a Non-Congress, Non-BJP Govt, Efforts On: Karat
Confident that the third front would play a decisive roll after the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has said that efforts are on to form a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the Centre.
Needless to add, Karat has been denying the possibility of a post-poll alliance with Congress even since RJD president Lalu Yadav and LSP chief Ram Vilas Paswan met him for the support of left parties after the elections.
After his two hours interaction with TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, Karat said that the Left is in constant touch with the non-Congress, non-BJP parties across the country, that they are already in touch with parties like AIADMK, BJD and JD (S) and that talks are also on with ten other regional parties.
“Ours will be a decisive role and effort is to form a non-Congress, non-BJP government,” Karat said.
When asked about the nature of his present meeting, he said that he discussed the strategy to be adopted after the outcome of general elections in his meeting with the TDP leader.
Chandrababu Naidu, describing his meeting with Karat an “informal one”, said that they discussed the prospects of Grand Alliance in Andhra Pradesh and that of the Third Front at the national level.
Reacting to Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement that they were prepared to join hands with “any party” at the Centre for the securing statehood to Telangana, the TDP chief pointed out that the TRS was very much with the Grand Alliance as of now.
