With general elections just round the corner, about a dozen regional and national parties today joined hands to form a Third Front, to act as an alternative to Congress and BJP. CPI senior leader Gurudas Dasgupta says the future strategy of the third front will be to have minimum agreement on maximum number of points.
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Below is the verbatim transcript of Gurudas Dasgupta's interview with Rituparna Bhuyan on CNBC-TV18.
Ritu: About 10 different parties, 10 different points of view, will this sustain?
A: There will be minimum agreement on maximum number of points. There is a situation in India today which compels all the parties to come together in view of the danger posed by the bipartite political system.
Ritu: In the past also the left parties had tried a similar experiment. It did not work. What gives you confidence that this time it will work as an alternative?
A: History does not repeat itself. All that happened in the past are not likely to happen again in the present or in the future.
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