CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said the left parties would work for the defeat of UPA and Congress due to the nine years of “misrule”. He also said there was no question of supporting “BJP or a BJP Prime Minister - Narendra Modi or anyone else.”
“We have made our position clear. After nine years of UPA misrule...UPA and Congress should be defeated. We are not going to work for their return,” Karat said. He was replying to a query if there was a possibility of the left parties supporting Congress after the next lok Sabha elections.
When asked to comment on Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee announcing that her party won’t support Modi as a Prime Ministerial candidate, Karat said, “For us there is no question of supporting (Narendra) Modi or anyone else from the BJP. She would support someone else or...We are not supporting BJP or BJP Prime Minister.”
On possibility of Third Front Government at Centre like in 1996, he said, “The situation is very different now. let us see what happens.” Karat also dismissed poll surveys projecting that left has lost further ground in West Bengal after losing the State to TMC.
Claiming that “surveys were not in tune with ground reality”, Karat said such thing can happen only if “rigging takes place” like the one which took place in just concluded Panchayat elections in West Bengal.