Attempts to form 3rd Front should have been made after polls: CPI
March 16, 2014  17:37

After the failed attempt to forge a Third Front, CPI has admitted that it was "a mistake" by the Left Front to attempt such a formation before the Lok Sabha polls with the regional parties which were more interested in increasing their seat count.        

 

Noting that most of the possible allies in the Third Front are regional parties, former CPI general secretary A B Bardhan also said the embarrassment of its premature failure could have been avoided if the Left had not gone into seat sharing talks with them before the elections.        

 

"Such a Front can come about only after the elections," Bardhan said in an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme.        

 

"I think you see we need not have gone on trying to work out you see adjustments with all regional parties. That we need not have tried. Because some of the regional parties wanted to maximise their seats and they were not willing to concede any seat to the Left," he said.        

 

Asked whether he would accept that the attempt to work out regional arrangements with regional parties was a mistake, Bardhan said, "All the regional parties, was a mistake."  He, however, said it was not an "embarrassing failure" of the Left Front.

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