Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav feels there is a high possibility of a Third Front assuming power in Delhi after 2014 general elections as neither the Congress nor the BJP would be able to garner enough votes to form a Government on their own.
The SP leader, who on Sunday reached out to the top CPI(M) leadership through his emissary Sanjay Dalmiya, said that the non-BJP, non-Congress parties would get the majority at the hustings, making way for a Third Front Government at the Centre. He, however, did not see any such coalition taking place before the polls.
“A Third Front is always stitched up after elections. Such an alliance will only come up after the elections. This time, neither the Congress nor the BJP would be able to form a Government. It is the parties which are likely to form a Third Front would get the majority and so they would form the Government at the Centre,” Yadav, who sent SP general secretary Dalmiya to meet senior Marxist leaders like Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Gautam Deb, said.
On a possible dialogue with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who had earlier floated the idea of a Federal Front with non-BJP-non-Congress outfits, Yadav said both he and his son and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav enjoyed cordial equations with Banerjee.
“I have always enjoyed cordial relation with Mamataji. Even Akhilesh has good chemistry with her,” Yadav said. Yadav had ditched the Bengal Chief Minister on the eve of Presidential elections after jointly backing candidates other than the Congress nominee Pranab Mukherjee — a development that had created a lot of bad blood between Trinamool Congress and the SP.
Yadav said no talk had yet taken place between the Trinamool Congress and his party, adding though the two parties could hold talks in future.
“We did not have any political discussions recently on the issue” he said. Yadav, who himself enjoyed good chemistry with the Marxist leadership, would not meet the CPI(M) leaders even as his party sources said he was not willing to “overdo things with the CPI(M)” so as to close all doors on the Trinamool Congress, the strongest party as of now in Bengal.