Lalu hints at formation of third front to oust BJP from power


Hinting at the formation of a third front, former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD) patron Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday said all like-minded secular parties would soon come on a single platform to oust the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government from the Centre.
"It has become incumbent on all like-minded secular parties to come together to oust the BJP from the Centre before it was too late and the country was divided on communal lines," said Lalu, after attending the swearing-in ceremony of Mamata Banerjee as the Chief Minister of Bengal for the second consecutive time.
"If we don't unite on time, the BJP and the Sangh will divide the country. And thus, leaders of all such parties will meet soon with a single aim to oust the BJP government," he added.
When asked who would be the leader of the front, he shot back to the media, saying let us meet first and then we will take a call on the leader.
When asked for the date of the meeting, he said he was not a party spokesman who would announce the date. He, however, said they would meet after rain lashes the country.
Congratulating Mamata Banerjee for her second term and a resounding victory in the recently-concluded assembly elections, Lalu said, "After the people of Bihar voted the 'Mahagathbandhan' to power, the people of Bengal gave a wonderful victory to Mamata Didi."
"It was a strategy of the Sangh and BJP to enter Bengal via Bihar, which was defeated by the people of Bihar and Bengal. I congratulate Mamata didi for her victory.

Meanwhile, addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said, "The Federal Front or the Fourth Front or the Third Front is the permanent mirage of Indian politics. This is a pretense which is being said from decades. It comes to the fore several times but vanishes from the picture on its own."
Source: ANI
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