The communist parties, CPI(M) and CPI, formally revived their efforts to create the ‘Third front’ to isolate the UPA, especially the Congress. Left leaders have been holding a series of meetings with parties like the Telegu Desam and Samajwadi Party. It is no more a secret that there are some deep personal breaches between the Gandhi family and the Samajwadi Party leadership, including Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh. The Communists are optimistic about forging an alliance with the UNPA in the next Lok Sabha elections.Om Prakash Chautala’s INLD has already conveyed to UNPA leaders that it is interested in joining this bandwagon. But National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah is keeping his options open.The Congress is not amused to see the Left cosying up to SP and TDP, its arch rivals in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
After being ejected from the post of Chief minister of UP and remaining in oblivion for all these months, the spring is back on the feet of Mulayam-Amar duo.Mulayam Singh Yadav has been elected chairman of the United National Front which includes the Left Parties also now.Chandrababu Naidu will be the coordinator whereas Amar Singh will provide fodder to the press.The Front had come into existence to fight the excesses of the ruling coalition that included left Parties also and while it was being given shape, these very leftists were smiling as sadists.They were not willing to even recognize its existence and the resultant influence of any such formation.They have eaten their words now and have sought the verbose umbrella of Amar Singh, fearing not so clean political weather after the election Monsoon is over.
The omnipresent General Secretary of Samajwadi Party,Amar Singh was able to bring Jaylalitha into the centre stage of national politics a few months back.Then Amar Singh was furious because his conversations on phone were being monitored and recorded ,allegedly on behest of the central government. Jaylalitha was persuaded to become the chairperson of the newly formed alliance, which was viewed as the first step towards the formation of a third front.Left Parties then were acting as the extension of Congress and concurred with them on various issues that also included political strategy in different states. They went to the extent of threatning Ram Vilas Paswan and kept ridiculing Samajwadi Party all this while. Much water has flown under the bridge since then. Now, once hostile Mr.Vardhan is cozying up with Mulayam Singh Yadav and has made him the chairman of the front. Being a staunch believer in the Politics of convenience,Amar Singh has clarified that Left is much more important for them than Miss Jayalalitha.
Left Parties enjoyed enormous clout in the government and tried to rule it by proxy on some pretext or the other. They were determining the political course of action of the ruling alliance and used to be uncharitable towards those who tried to deviate, even at the state level. Surprisingly these leftists had set another rule for themselves whereby they were free to pursue independent policy in the states .In this context the humiliation of Ram Vilas Paswan is as much unjustified as the doubt over the secular credential of Mulayam-Amar duo.
Congress finds itself in a precarious condition now as its allies like DMK,RJD and NCP are also not exactly the all weather friends and they can go in the direction of the wind.Weather prediction methodology is not absolutely correct yet ,so they are playing the waiting game for a while.Time to come up with an alternate strategy for Congress now !!!
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