Tripura CM hopeful of Third Front coming to power

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has expressed hope that the Third Front would come to power after the next year's Lok Sabha elections.
"People across the country want a substitute for both Congress and BJP as they are fed up with increasing corruption and communalism in the country," Sarkar said here at a session of the 11th Assam state-level conference of Democratic Youth Federation of India, CPI-M's youth wing, last evening.
The state-level and regional parties can form an "honest and suitable alliance" to establish a non-communal, democratic and corruption-free government at the Centre on the basis of a common minimum agenda, he said.

Several coalition partners of UPA-II government like DMK and Trinamool Congress have already left the UPA government as they have realised that it will not return to power in the next polls, the CPI-M leader said.
The situation was the same for the BJP-led NDA as ally JD(U) is unhappy with BJP's projection of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate, he said.
The Left parties, in collaboration with regional and state-level parties, would play a major role to find a viable third substitute at the Centre, he claimed.