POLITICS of INDIA
Third Front, BSP to meet .
With reports of cracks in the Third Front, leaders of the non-Congress, non-BJP parties, including BSP, will meet here on May 18 to discuss the possibility of forming an alternative secular government.
TRS, which switched to the NDA side three days ago, has not been called for the meeting, CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Wednesday.
"Leaders of non-Congress, non-BJP will meet here on May 18 to decide the future course of action. BSP will join these discussions where we will explore the possibilities of forming an alternative secular government," he told reporters here.
Karat said the Left parties will meet in New Delhi on May 17 which will be followed by the CPM's Politburo meeting on May 18 and Central Committee the following day. "This will be the first round of meeting among the parties," he said.
Asked whether TRS has been invited to the meeting, Karat said: "TRS is not in this. He (K Chandrasekhar Rao) has obviously found some other place."
On reports about BJP sending feelers to
"He (Naidu) is the main mover behind the non-Congress, non-BJP combine," Karat said.
On JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy meeting Congress chief Sonia Gandhi yesterday, Karat said former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has already clarified his party position. "He (Gowda) is one of the main movers of the front."
When asked about what parties like AIADMK,
Besides BSP, Left parties, AIADMK,
Bardhan also said after the results are out on May 16, the Third Front would get "more numbers" and "will tell the President that we must be given a chance".
The Left parties would meet on May 17, a day after the results come out. The
The decision-making bodies of Forward Bloc and RSP would also be meeting on the same days.
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