Third Front is far from reality
A secular non-Congress and non-BJP Government is a distant reality in India. Even the emergence of Third Front leaves a little hope of any such government as the front does not even has a single ideology or PM candidate
IN THE Indian politics, the third alternative has always been lurking like a pole star, which comes into the picture only during the pre-election time and vanishes like a star during the bright daylight, after the elections.
So far the so-called secular non-Congress and non-BJP Government is a distant reality until now and it seems a not so happening thing this time round also. The reason for it is the so-called Third Front is a helm without any single ideology.
Their political hate for Congress and BJP is the basis for their unity. The entire major constituent parties of the third front are primarily pitted against either Congress or BJP in their respective states ie, the Left parties in West Bengal and Kerala, TDP and TRS in Andhra Pradesh, BSP in UP, LJP and RJD in Bihar, AIADMK, PMK and MDMK in Tamil Nadu and BJD in Orissa.
It’s ostensible that Congress and BJP would emerge as the largest parties in the Parliament, as they are the two parties, which have national wide presence and forming the central govt without either of their support is a distant reality.
This time Congress is aligning with Trinamool in West Bengal, which would affect the vote and seat share for the Left parties, and in Kerala and Tripura also the Left may loose some of its seats as compared to the 2004 elections.
There is an absolute chaos in the Third Front over the Prime Minister issue; in fact, there are more than a dozen aspirants for the top job in the Third Front. Mayawati, Sharad Pawar and Jayalalitha, Mulayam Singh and some other PM aspirants may join or remain with the Third Front if their wish is fulfilled.
The Left parties does not want the new liberal economic reforms, whereas other constituents of this so-called Third Front like Chandra Babu Naidu and Navin Patnaik are famous for their pro-economic reforms approach. Therefore, the front is full of contradiction of ideologies and personalities, which does not auger well for forming a stable govt. or running a stable coalition without non-Congress and non-BJP support.
The so-called Third Front is not going to the people as a pre-poll coalition and they don’t have a common ideological programme unlike the NDA or UPA. The previous experience in Indian coalition politics show that such coalitions without any ideology and common political understanding won’t last long for example the UF (United Front) govt, which came into power in 1989 and 1996.
Their political hate for Congress and BJP is the basis for their unity. The entire major constituent parties of the third front are primarily pitted against either Congress or BJP in their respective states ie, the Left parties in West Bengal and Kerala, TDP and TRS in Andhra Pradesh, BSP in UP, LJP and RJD in Bihar, AIADMK, PMK and MDMK in Tamil Nadu and BJD in Orissa.
It’s ostensible that Congress and BJP would emerge as the largest parties in the Parliament, as they are the two parties, which have national wide presence and forming the central govt without either of their support is a distant reality.
This time Congress is aligning with Trinamool in West Bengal, which would affect the vote and seat share for the Left parties, and in Kerala and Tripura also the Left may loose some of its seats as compared to the 2004 elections.
There is an absolute chaos in the Third Front over the Prime Minister issue; in fact, there are more than a dozen aspirants for the top job in the Third Front. Mayawati, Sharad Pawar and Jayalalitha, Mulayam Singh and some other PM aspirants may join or remain with the Third Front if their wish is fulfilled.
The Left parties does not want the new liberal economic reforms, whereas other constituents of this so-called Third Front like Chandra Babu Naidu and Navin Patnaik are famous for their pro-economic reforms approach. Therefore, the front is full of contradiction of ideologies and personalities, which does not auger well for forming a stable govt. or running a stable coalition without non-Congress and non-BJP support.
The so-called Third Front is not going to the people as a pre-poll coalition and they don’t have a common ideological programme unlike the NDA or UPA. The previous experience in Indian coalition politics show that such coalitions without any ideology and common political understanding won’t last long for example the UF (United Front) govt, which came into power in 1989 and 1996.
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