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Third Front cannot be a cut and paste arrangement, says CPI(M)

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NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Thursday, said the move to create a third political alternative cannot be a “cut and paste arrangement” on the eve of the elections and can emerge only through sustained popular struggles.

“The CPI (M) had all along, in the Political Resolutions of successive Party Congresses articulated the need for the creation of a third political alternative that can effect a progressive shift in the policy trajectory of the country. Such an alternative cannot, obviously, be a cut and paste arrangement on the eve of elections. This can only emerge through sustained popular struggles. There are no short cuts,” it said in an editorial in the party organ People’s Democracy.

Carrying forward its earlier reaction that the people did not see the Third Front as a credible and viable alternative at the national level, the editorial said developments such as the BSP and the JD(S) which were part of the non-Congress, non-BJP front moving over to the Congress in the post-election scenario and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti crossing over to the BJP-led NDA only confirmed this assessment.

It said the run-up to these elections saw the coming together of all anti-Communist forces who made a determined bid to dent the Left electorally in its bastions.

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