Third Front had no juicy carrots: Karat

May 22, 2009 left

In its first formal admission that its pre-poll strategy — of which CPM general secretary Prakash Karat was the chief architect — was a failure, the CPM Politburo today admitted that the Third Front was seen as neither “credible nor viable.”

After an eight-hour meeting yesterday, where leaders from West Bengal were said to attributed their rout to the Third Front fancy and the decision to withdraw support to the UPA, the Politburo decided to share the blame saying “state-specific factors” were also responsible for the defeat…More

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