Left parties to support Alternative coalition to NDA |
The Left parties are willing to provide outside support to any alternative coalition to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre. But they are in a fix about the possibility of Mamata Banerjee`s Trinamool Congress becoming a part of such an arrangement, according to a member of the Communist Party of India Marxist`s politburo. Trinamool Congress, which won 34 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 national polls, wrested power from the Left Front after 34 years in West Bengal. The Left had nine members in the last Lok Sabha. Its key poll slogan in West Bengal is: “Defeat BJP, defeat Trinamool”. The Left supported the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government before it withdrew support to it over the 2008 India-United States of America nuclear deal. The Congress later formed an alliance with the TMC and Banerjee served as the railway minister in the UPA government. The Left wants to support an alternative government also because a section of its leaders considers withdrawal of support from the UPA government a “blunder”. Senior CPI leader Sitaram Yechury said Be it in 1996 when H D Deve Gowda became the Prime Minister or the 2004 post-poll formation.
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