Jaitley says instability held out by the Third Front helped UPA

May 22, 2009 bjp

BJP national general secretary Arun Jaitley on Thursday attributed the National Democratic Alliance’s election debacle to the “legitimate desire” among the people for political stability.

This desire was triggered by the pre-poll prospect of political instability thrown up by the Third Front trying to emerge as a balancing force with respect to the formation of a government at the Centre, he added…More

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Why the Third Front? Wise and Senior leaders explain

Apr 2, 2009 bjp, congress, left

General Elections 2009 will be all about stitching the right alliances or finding post-poll friends.

In a debate on CNN-IBN’s network CNBC TV-18, Karan Thapar asked the main players - the Congress, the BJP and the Left – to list their friends and give a perspective on what the 15th Lok Sabha will look like.

Arun Jaitley: A number of parties are stationed in the parking lot. They are called Third Front and are seeking their future course of action depending on who has the numbers. I see potential in that position depending on what the numbers are

Sitaram Yechury: I am standing equidistant from Cong and BJP (points in the direction of Sibal and Jaitley). That’s the distance we want to maintain to ensure a non-Congress alternative.

Kapil Sibal: The sum total of your MPs can never be more than the UPA as it exists. Today the Third Front if you count all of them has 78. From 78, if you expect 272, it’s just not going to happen.

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