Plans will concretise only after the meeting of leaders of the 11 parties after the session, they said.
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury described the likely alliance as a “First Front” and said the aim is to formulate policies which would bring relief on the economic front and protect people from communal forces. Asked any rally has been planned by them in Bangalore, Karat said, “It would be discussed.”
“It was agreed that leaders of 11 such parties, who had come together on February 5 to forge a common strategy in Parliament, will hold a meeting in Delhi and decide the future course of action,” JD (S) Secretary General Danish Ali, who attended the meeting, told PTI.
Yechury said any Third Front alliance would only take shape after the Lok Sabha polls and not in the run up to it.
“There is not going to be a (Third) Front prior to Lok Sabha elections... From 1977 till today, whenever there has been an alliance, it has been after the elections, whether it be NDA, or United Front,” he said.
In indications of emergence of a Third Front in view of the Lok Sabha polls, 11 non-Congress, non-BJP parties had on February 5 formally joined hands as a block in Parliament to pitch for pro-people, anti-communal and federal agenda.
These parties are the four Left parties, Samajwadi Party, JD(U), AIADMK, AGP, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha, JD(S) and BJD.
JD (U), which walked out of NDA snapping its 17-year-old ties with BJP, hopes to play significant role in the formation of such a front, given the fact that the erstwhile Janta Dal had always been an axis force, whenever such a Third Force was formed in the country.
