NEW DELHI: If one front bickers, another seems to sprout. The Indo-US nuclear agreement may have exposed the chinks in the armour of the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), but it has brought elements of the old Third Front together.
The Left parties, the SP, the Telugu Desam (TDP) and former PM VP Singh’s Jan Morcha on Monday joined hands to attack the New Delhi-Washington accord at an anti-nuke convention in the capital.
Leaders of the four Left parties —— CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI boss AB Bardhan, Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas, and RSP leader Abani Roy - shared the anti-nuclear deal platform with Yerran Naidu of TDP, Jaya Bachchan and Ramgopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party) and VP Singh.
With the spectre of a mid-term poll looming large, all the leaders lambasted the Congress-led UPA government for going ahead with the nuclear deal which, they claimed, was not in the interests of the country.
CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said, “The committee wouldn’t be able to convince anybody. Time is running out. If the government ignores our pleas, it will face the consequences.”
