Modi in Delhi to forge alliance with Third Front?
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in Delhi to begin the negotiations two days before the final counting.
Modi is scheduled to hold talks with the Third Front leaders and with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief J Jayalalithaa.
Earlier, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M Venkaiah Naidu met Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief Chandrababu Naidu.
On Wednesday, May 13 BJP president Rajnath Singh said the BJP will emerge as the single largest party and NDA will form the next government after votes are counted on May 16.
“The BJP will emerge as the single largest party. The BJP-led NDA will get a majority or will fall short by a small margin in which case I am confident that other political parties will support us,” Singh said.
Singh refused to name the political parties, which are likely to extend support if NDA falls short of a majority.
“This is a part of our strategy. I will not say anything at all on this issue,” he added.
The BJP-led NDA is trailing behind the Congress-led UPA in the projections given by different exit polls in the Lok Sabha elections.
The surveys shown by TV channels after the end of fifth phase of polling placed the BJP-led NDA not very far behind the UPA and the Third Front likely to get little over 100 seats. More
Tags: jayalalitha, narendra modi
Why the Third front is Good
May 7, 2009 bjp, congress, left, nda
The fact of the matter is: good governance depends on both institutions and individual leaders; not on elitist distinctions between ‘national’ and “regional”
After a flurry of plaintive laments from pseudo pundits and crypto analysts, the words have finally been repeated by the Prime Minister. Dr. Manmohan Singh feels that the Third Front is a bad idea, because it will promote ‘regionalism’ at the cost of a national vision. The pseudo pundits have, of course, labelled even the possibility of a Third Front government as an unmitigated disaster for India. Everybody says that coalition governments are messy, unruly, incoherent and consumed by centrifugal forces.
History perhaps supports this contention with prime ministers like Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V. P. Singh, Chandrasekhar, Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral leading notoriously fractious and unstable governments. Pseudo pundits even claim that the era of coalition politics that descended upon India since 1989 is singularly responsible for preventing the country from emerging as a genuine World Power.
The arguments are surely logical and persuasive on the face of it. But, really, the caveat is: On the face of it. For, the shrill cry against the Third Front and regional chieftains reveals a disturbing streak of feudalistic elitism…More..
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Maywati can play on all fronts: UPA, NDA, Third Front
If Congress is forgetting the bitterness to plump for SP in a haste, it is also because Mulayam Singh is expected to be more dependable as a coalition partner if only because of the limited options he has. The SP boss cannot have an overt partnership with BJP while he is wary of Third Front, which he sees as a packed house of ambitious satraps, and is critically dependent on Congress. A Third Front, without Mayawati, can be an option but not that attractive.
Mayawati is just the opposite. The Dalit maverick can play on all power fronts — UPA, Third Front and NDA.
With a good number in her bag, she is likely to first explore the leadership option with Third Front — her best bet as Congress and BJP would be scared of ceding a key leadership position to her for fear of its impact on their dalit and Brahmin votebanks nationally. But she can surprise with an innovative arrangement with UPA or NDA…More..
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Is Third Front the Gabbar Singh of politics?
Remember the classic Sholay dialogue, “in the night when a child is crying, the mother says, go to sleep or Gabbar Singh will come.” A similar warning is now being echoed amongst India’s elite: only this time it isn’t some gun-toting dacoit who is spreading fear, but the prospect of a third front government that has India Inc and their political patrons scurrying for cover. The BJP calls it a ‘parking lot’, the Congress a recipe for anarchy; but is a third front government such a frightening idea?
It should be no surprise then that both the UPA and the NDA are going into elections 2009 in a shrunken state. Both, in a sense, are artificial coalitions, driven by political opportunism, and not through any common minimum programme as is claimed . Both reflect the complete dependence of the national parties on regional forces. Both mirror the declining role of the principal poles of Indian politics. Maybe, a non-Congress, non-BJP government will frighten away the investor a la Gabbar. But ironically, it may just be the final wake-up call the two main parties need to get their act together before its too late…More.
Tags: gabbar singh, Rajdeep Sardesail, sholay
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