Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Left Front has once again reiterated its stand that it will not back any Congress-led government even as it will strive hard to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance from forming the government.
"We will not support a Congress-led government. We will not let the BJP exploit the post-poll numbers to form a government," said Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Prakash Karat.
"I don't believe in exit polls," Karat said while reacting to the post-poll survey that predict a steep fall in the number of seats that Left parties are likely to win in the Lok Sabha elections.
Communist Party of India National Secretary D Raja also echoed Karat's views saying Left will try to install a non-Congress, non-BJP government.
"We don't want BJP to take advantage on any situation that emerges (after May 16). We will strive for an alternate government... a non-Congress, non-BJP government," said Raja.
However, sources have told CNN-IBN that the Left could allow a Congress-led minority government to take and stay in power if the United Progress Alliance emerges as the largest alliance, but falls short of a majority.
But its first priority will be to help form a Third Front government which it, too, could join.
The Left could also negotiate support for a Congress-led UPA government but will insist that Manmohan Singh should not be the Prime Minister and the Indo-US nuclear deal scrapped but that seems a remote possibility.
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