Kolkata, May 09: The CPI(M) on Saturday said that there is
no division within the party over its decision to pitch for
a Third Front without the Congress or the BJP in the current
Lok Sabha elections.
"There is no division within the party about going for a
Third Front to keep the Congress and the BJP at bay. This
time, we are fighting both the Congress and the BJP unlike in
the 14th Lok Sabha elections during which we said that we will
have to keep the BJP out," CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary
Biman Bose told a `Meet-the-Press` programme at the Kolkata
Press Club.
He was asked whether any decision in the party that it
would not go with the Congress or if there was a division on
this count.
Replying to a question on whether his party would prefer
to sit in the opposition benches in the event the Third Front
is unable to form the government, Bose said, "the final phase
of elections are not over. The results will be out on May 16.
I would, therefore, not comment about our post-poll strategy."
On BJP leader L K Advani`s ruling out the victory of the
Third Front, he said, "there should be no doubt about the
Third Front. We have said that if it comes to power, it will
form a secular government on the basis of a common minimum
programme. Mr Advani`s aims will not be fulfilled." PTI SBR PC
Bureau Report
