Third Front leaders resolve to work for defeat of BJP, Congress.
NEW DELHI (March 15, 2009): Leaders of nine political parties, which are working for a third national alternative, on Sunday resolved to work together to defeat the Congress and the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.
“We shall work together to form an alternative government for the progress and welfare of people. We appeal to all secular and democratic forces and all sections of people to support this endeavour,” a joint statement issued by the leaders of four Left parties, the AIADMK, the BJD, the JD(S), the TDP and the TRS said.
Those who attended the meeting at AKG Bhavan, headquarters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), were Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), A.B. Bardhan and D. Raja (CPI), Debabrata Biswas and Devarajan (AIFB), T.J. Chandrachoodan and Abani Roy (RSP), H.D. Deve Gowda and Danish Ali (JD-S), N. Chandrababu Naidu, K. Rama Mohana Rao and M.V. Mysura Reddy (TDP), K. Chandrasekhar Rao and B. Vinod Kumar (TRS), V. Maitreyan (AIADMK) and B.J Panda (BJD).
