Re-elected CPI(M) General secretary Sitaram Yechury"today said that any non-BJP and non-Congress"third front would not be successful if it was formed"with the sole aim of coming to power.
Speaking at a public meeting here at the conclusion of the party's 22nd"Congress, he said the third front should have a strong basis and policy under which it should be formed and would emerge only through public movements.
He said the Telangana Chief Minister spoke with him some days back, wanting to bring a Non-Congress and non-BJP front.
"He asked my opinion. I said the third front exercise was done about 20 years ago in 1996. We formed a government under the leadership of Deve Gowda without BJP and Congress."
Yechury said defeating religious-based politics and 'religious fanatics' was the prime objective
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