Channelise discontent to challenge BJP in 2019 polls: Yechury

The people's discontent against the NDA government's policies would have to be channelised to evolve a national coalition to take on the BJP in the 2019 general elections, CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury has said.

"We will decide on the basis of policies and programmes...

because mere coming together does not mean (Opposition) unity, it's not about arithmetic only. And I think there should be an alternate government, a secular government (in 2019).

"We are not saying that we will join hands with anybody.

All that I want to raise is that we will work for forming an alternate government against the government of the communal forces," Yechury said.

The CPI(M) general secretary was replying to a spate of questions on how he saw the emerging national political scenario leading up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, during an interaction with

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