The CPI(M) has wasted no time in writing off the Third Front which it had authored on the eve of the 2009 general elections.
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, who spearheaded the efforts to forge the Third Front, said his party and the CPI had an electoral understanding with some of the non-Congress and non-BJP parties in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Karnataka.
“We projected the Third Front as a national level non-Congress, non-BJP alternative. The defeat of the Left in Bengal and Kerala and the failure of the alliance in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu undermined that purpose,” Karat said in an article in the CPI(M) mouthpiece People’s Democracy.
He said it was evident that such a combination was “not a credible and viable alternative at the national level.”
