Third front to gain more strength post May 16: Karat
New Barrackpore (WB) (PTI): The CPI(M), a Third Front ally, on Sunday said the grouping would gain further strength after the Lok Sabha election results on May 16 with the joining of more non-Congress and non-BJP secular parties.
"After May 16 other non-Congress and non-BJP parties will join the Third Front," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said at an election rally here.
"BJP and the Congress are debating over the issue who is a weak PM and who can be stronger. But neither Manmohan Singh nor L K Advani would become Prime Minister," he said.
Mr. Karat said, "after the Lok Sabha elections, the Third Front would become stronger and that is why both the Congress and the BJP are attacking it continuously".
In the "2004 parliamentary elections, non-BJP and non-Congress parties had together secured more than 50 percent votes," Mr. Karat said.
"The UPA exists only in name. UPA partners RJD and LJP are fighting against the Congress in Bihar while the same situation prevails in UP where the Samjawadi Party is contesting against the very Congress," Mr. Karat said.
