Why the Third Front’s making Cong, BJP sweat
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With the election campaign for the first phase coming to an end, it has become clear that the 15th Lok Sabha election is a three-way contest. Contrary to what the Congress and the BJP hoped would be a contest between the two parties and their respective allies, the coming together of the non-Congress, non-BJP parties are challenging both the Congress and the BJP in a number of states. This is behind the increasing attacks on the Third Front by the Congress and the BJP leadership. The Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi has been attacking the Third Front in her speeches during the election campaign. She has said that forming such fronts just before elections is not good for the country. Such a front has no policy or programme and would push the country to disaster. L K Advani while releasing the BJP manifesto, called the Third Front a "farcical....
Lok Sabha polls: An alternative emerges
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The past one week has firmly established the fact that there is a viable non-Congress, non-BJP combination emerging to fight the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. What is popularly known as a Third Front became a reality when seven parties shared a common platform at the massive rally organised in Dobbspet, near Bangalore, on March 12. The leaders of the Janata Dal (Secular), the AIADMK, the Telugu Desam, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the CPI(M) and the CPI declared that they would work together to defeat the Congress and the BJP and to create a new alternative. Three days later, on March 15, nine political parties met in New Delhi. Apart from the four Left parties, the TDP, the JD (S), the AIADMK, the TRS and the Biju Janata Dal discussed how to take forward the electoral understanding and seat-sharing arrangements they had arrived at in various....
More about Prakash Karat
Prakash Karat is the General Secretary of the CPI(M). He is a graduate from the Madras Christian College. In 1970, he was rusticated from the University of Edinburgh where he was pursuing a post-graduate degree in M.Sc (Politics) 1970 for anti-apartheid protest action which was suspended on good behaviour. The same year he joined the CPI(M). He also worked underground for one-and-a-half years during the Emergency. He was elected to the CPI(M) Politburo in 1992.
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