Non-BJP, non-Cong front: Parties to meet tomorrow on Parliament plan

With efforts to forge a non-BJP, non-Congress front ahead of the Lok Sabha polls gaining momentum, several parties including the Left would meet here tomorrow to chalk out floor coordination tactics in the last session of Parliament.

In a step forward to forge an electoral alliance, parties like Samajwadi Party, JD(U), AIADMK, BJD and JD(S) would join CPI(M), CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc, to work out the tactics to be adopted during the session, Left sources said.

The meeting comes days after AIADMK forged an alliance with CPI and CPI(M) to fight Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu.

On tomorrow's meeting of leaders of parliamentary groups of these non-Congress, non-BJP parties, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said people were looking for a viable alternative which had policies to provide them relief and not one cobbled up just for ensuring majority.

"What we believe is people want that kind of alternative that will follow policies that will provide them relief. So, an alternative merely to cobble up majority is not what people want," he said in Chandigarh.

Regarding the session, he said since this would be the last one before the Lok Sabha polls, "effort will be on to ensure that all pending legislations for peoples welfare are prioritised and passed".

Indications on forging of such an alliance have come in from Bihar where Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar has been saying there was no chance of either BJP or Congress- led alliances coming to power.

"Under such circumstances, formation of a grouping of anti-Congress and anti-BJP parties will be significant in the coming Lok Sabha elections," he said. Similar statements have also been made by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

"What we have been saying all along is that people are looking for relief. They want relief from burdens that are being imposed on them. They are disgusted in the manner in which public resources are being looted, they are fed up with rampant corruption. They are looking for an alternative," Yechury said.

The coming together of non-BJP, non-Congress parties was going to have "very good impact... This sort of coming together of various non-BJP, non-Congress political parties, which are mainly regional parties, but very powerful in their regions as they are heading the state governments there, is good.