Third Front comes together to beat UPA and NDA

This week the Third Front was launched. Ten parties, comprising some regional parties and the Communists, came together at a rally in Bangalore on Thursday to launch the Third Front ahead of general elections beginning next month.

Interestingly, the contradictions are very apparent. Chandrababu Naidu - the quintessential promoter of business and economic activity in AP is teaming together with CPI, the people who do their best to stall any economic activity in the country. So you had the strange mix of Janata Dal-Secular head H D Deve Gowda, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan, Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu standing on the stage together.

Their primary objective: form an alternate front in order to topple both the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance.

And that's what is so sad of Indian politics now. Politicians do not run to help the common man or improve the country but to UNABASHEDLY win at any cost. The loser is the common man! Why? Because of these antics now, we will see a hung parliament and possibly one or maybe more Mid Term elections before we can have a stable Government. Hundreds of crores will be lost. Politicians will gain. But the common man will lose BIG TIME!

Meanwhile, BJP calls this Third Front as a "Parking lot" and a "Mirage". Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu alleged that:

"Third Front has no leader, no agenda, no alliance...No seat-sharing…How can anybody call it a Third Front?"

The structure of Third Front has been changing over the years and in that sense, Naidu's claim does make sense. And if one looks back into the history of the last 20 years one can find that when the Third Front Governments took over the reigns with totally forgettable PM reigns of Dewe Gowda and IK Gujral, India was the most vulnerable!

With the economy in a downturn, the opportunist are taking advantage now.

Reference Links:

1. Third Front is a Parking Lot: BJP