Top leaders of the Left parties and the Telugu Desam Party today held deliberations here to discuss on the future course of action in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls
NEW DELHI: Top leaders of the Left parties and the Telugu Desam Party today held deliberations here to discuss on the future course of action in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls scheduled for April-May next year.
The breakfast meeting, held at senior TDP leader Yerran Naidu's residence, was attended by TDP supremo N Chandrababu
Naidu, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan and CPM general secretary Prakash Karat.
The meeting attained significance as it came a week after the Left parties entered into a 'pact' with the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.
TDP also made it clear that it will go along with the Left parties in Andhra Pradesh during the Lok Sabha polls.
Today's meeting seems to be a fresh attempt to revive the 'third alternative', which ran into trouble with the Samajwadi Party joining hands with the UPA and in the recent times the Asom Gana Parishad and the INLD choosing to side with the NDA formulation.
"It was a general meeting on the current political situation. Future strategies were also discussed," a Left party leader said, adding that it was too early to reveal what course of action would be taken.
As per sources, the Left parties along with other players in the third front, are planning to hold a mammoth rally in Delhi to "expose the UPA government on its anti-farmers policies."
The rally would also target the main Opposition, BJP, accusing it of trying to reap political benefits out of the terrorism issue.
As a precursor to the rally, the Left parties joined the TDP-led protest at Jantar Mantar here on the Babli project issue concerning Andhra Pradesh.
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