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Congress, BJP rebuff SP's third front vision
Monday March 25, 2013 11:18:20 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: In a
sharp rebuff to the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Congress and the BJP
Monday said that there was no possibility of a third front central
government after the 2014 general elections.
"I don't think there is any possibility of any third front.
History is witness that whenever a third front has come into
existence, it has collapsed for the sake of power," Congress
spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters.
"People do not trust such third fronts," he said.
The Congress was reacting to SP Mulayam Singh Yadav's recent
remarks that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) was better at handling coalition partners than the
Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh dismissed Mulayam
Singh's view.
"We work according to the situation.. Whatever he (Mulayam Singh)
has said is not anything new," he said.
BJP leader Balbir Punj said that a third or fourth front would
continue to be in the news for the "wrong reasons" but it will be
a "non-starter".
But the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a UPA partner, said that
the era of coalition had begun.
"Different parties with common understandings and a programme will
come together to form the government and the political formation,"
NCP general secretary D.P. Tripathi said.
He also urged regional parties to group before the 2014 general
elections through a common agenda.
Mulayam Singh, whose party rules Uttar Pradesh and supports the
UPA from outside, has been flexing muscles of late saying the next
Lok Sabha polls, sceduled for 2014, could be held this year.
He has asked SP workers to prepare for a general election.
His calculation is to garner enough Lok Sabha seats from Uttar
Pradesh to project himself as the head of a possible coalition of
regional parties in case both the national parties - the Congress
and the BJP - are not in a position to form a government.
Mulayam Singh's son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav told a TV channel Sunday that the SP was ready with a plan
to withdraw support to the UPA government after the parliament's
budget session ends May 10.
The SP's support to the UPA has become crucial after the exit of
DMK last week over a United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC)
vote against Sri Lanka in Geneva.
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