Addressing to a rally, leaders of Third Front, the Left and major regional parties announced that they had come together to provide a new alternative to the voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls going to be held in April-May this year.

Prakash Karat, the General Secretary of CPM said that this is a historic get together of all democratic, secular and Left parties in India to declare that they are all coming together to constitute a third force in India.

He also added in his speech that the third force stood for the interests of the vast masses for the firm defence of secularism against communal forces. This new platform would fight for social justice for the oppressed sections.

Joined by A B Bardhan (CPI leader), N Chandrababu Naidu (TDP chief) and H D Deve Gowda (former Prime Minister and JD(S) chief) among others, Prakash Karat also said in his speech to the massive rally, “Today we have come together because the country needs a new alternative.” Satish Mishra of the BSP, V Maitreyan of the AIADMK, representatives of TRS, Forward Bloc, RSP and Bhajan Lal’s Haryana Janahith Party were also present at the launch.”

This Third Front was formally launched by JD(S) ched H D Deve Gowda in Karnataka that has seen many a watershed in the country’s political history since the foundation of this non-Congress government at the Centre in 1988.