Chandrababu Naidu, once a darling of corporate houses and MNCs, shunned his pro-US, pro-capitalist image when he left the NDA two years ago.
NEW DELHI: Chandrababu Naidu is knocking at the doors of the likes of Prakash Karat, Amar Singh and Om Prakash Chautala in pursuit of the elusive Third Front.
Naidu, once a darling of corporate houses and MNCs, shunned his pro-US, pro-capitalist image when he left the BJP-led alliance two years ago. With no sight of the Third Front in the near future, he has now turned a critic of economic reforms.
CPI (M) honchos Karat and Sitaram Yechury had cold-shouldered him when he quit the saffron camp in 2005 and decided to keep Naidu under watch for two years. Yechury had said, “There cannot be any cut and paste third front. It should come from joint struggles on people’s issues.”
After his two-year sabbatical, Naidu this week held separate talks with Karat, Amar Singh and Chautala. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader said they discussed “people’s problems and economic reforms.”
Karat said, “Naidu expressed a willingness to associate the TDP with the CPI (M)’s struggles against anti-people policies. The two parties were already engaged in active cooperation.” Backing the CPI (M), the TDP demanded that the Centre should have a re-look at the Special Economic Zones Act as farmers were the losers.
To please Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, Naidu offered to campaign for the Samajwadi Party in the upcoming assembly elections, even though he is not proficient in Hindi.
He said the law and order situation in the Congress-ruled States was far worse than in Uttar Pradesh.
“Economic reforms have been on for the last 16 years but the fruits are not reaching the common man,” Naidu said. “I am working with non-UPA, non-BJP parties to achieve that goal,” he said, adding that the policies being pursued by the UPA government could endanger food security.
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