Front, without Left, is it possible?

A major national political front, alternative to the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conglomerates, has taken birth in Hyderabad.

A virtual third front that non-Congress and non-BJP leaders have been talking about all along has now become a reality. For the time being the third front will consist of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham (AIADMK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham (MDMK), Samajwadi Party (SP), Jharkhand Vikas Morcha, Assom Gana Parishad (AGP), Karnataka Congress Party (KCP) and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).

Who heads the third front is still to be awaited. This will, in all probability, be decided at the next meeting of the leaders of these eight parties to be held in Chennai soon.

However, a question raises that front, without Left assistance, is it possible by these eight regional parties.

N. Chandra Babu Naidu, TDP supremo felt that the regional parties would play vital role in the Central in the coming days to form Government.

The closed-door Hyderabad conclave, second in the series, the first having been held at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh recently, was fruitful and ended by extending an open-arm welcome to like-minded parties to join for “building a better nation”. All these eight leaders will soon be meeting in Chennai to work out the details of the policies to be formulated for the “viable alternative front”. The date of the Chennai meet will be decided soon.

The next meeting at Chennai will also finalize the third front’s agenda for the nation, veteran AIADMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister, J Jayalalithaa, said.

All the eight leaders expressed the hope that more parties with similar agenda would join the Chennai meet. Even the Kerala Congress, which was scheduled to depute its representative to the Hyderabad meet, could not make it “due to some problem”.

The group of leaders strongly opposed the proposed nuclear deal that India is likely to enter with the United States for “civil nuclear cooperation”.

Besides, they angred that the Economic reorms, which is being implemented by the UPA Government.

It seems the leaders of the eight parties trying to get Left support by opposing the economic reforms through the walk of the Left way.

Anyway, we have to wait and see what happend in forthcoming Chennai conclave.