New Delhi (DNS): After the break over the nuclear deal, the CPI (M) has ruled out supporting the Congress in forming the government at the centre।
It also parried questions over projecting BSP supremo Mayawati as the Prime Ministerial candidate by non-Congress and non-BJP parties in the next Lok Sabha elections।
"If you think we are going to support a Congress government, I don't know, I think people will accuse us of opportunism," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat told Malayalam television channel "Kairali TV"।
He also raised a question as to why only the possibility of the Congress and BJP forming a government is raised।
"So, why do you think that there can only be a BJP-led government or a Congress-led government," he said adding there could be a third force, which could also be in that position।
Asked about projecting BSP supremo Mayawati as prime minister, he said they do not look at it in terms of individuals being projected।
"Hopefully, we will be able to present some third force in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections। We don't look at it in terms of individuals being projected as Prime Minister," he said.
Karat said that what the Left was looking for was that "there is a possibility today to have some combination which will not just reduce the country's politics to a Congress-led alliance and a BJP-led alliance"।
Replying to another question whether coming together of the Left with parties like the BSP, which have aligned with the BJP in the past, would create a durable Third Alternative, he said the Left was not going to project such an alternative।
"Be very clear, I didn't use the word Third Alternative। I have not talked about the Third Alternative...Our party's understanding of the Third Alternative is not some combination to fight elections. The Third Alternative has to be in terms of policies and programs," Karat said.
Karat said that political parties which were not part of the Congress and BJP led coalitions joined forces only after realising they had a common agenda - opposition to the nuclear deal।
"Its only after we withdrew support, we said we would contact all the secular parties who opposed the deal and who can plan with us to vote against the UPA government। And as part of the process, I met Mayawati, Ajit Singh, Deve Gowdaji.....We met all of them and then came to a common understanding," he said.
Karat sought to downplay the erstwhile UNPA (led by the Samajwadi Party) and said he never considered it a part of the Third Front।
"In our party congress held in April, we said the Third Alternative is not there। We didn't even consider the UNPA, which was headed by the SP to be a Third Alternative. We told them this is not the alternative we are thinking of," he said.
The CPI(M) leader said he told UNPA that the Left parties could co-operate with them on important issues like price rise, farmers' issues or the nuclear deal।
"But the Third Alternative means something more stable, something more based on a programme," he said.
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