Third Front is a matter of time, says Sitaram Yechury

DHANBAD: CPI-M today expressed optimism over a Third Front emerging "soon" in the country to give the people an alternative.

"Third Front will soon emerge in the country as an alternative to the people as neither Congress nor BJP is going to get majority in next Lok Sabha elections," party's politburo member Sitaram Yechury said here today.

To a query, Yechury said Samajwadi Party would be a major part of a Third Front and the front's "revival programme" would be completed before the budget session of Parliament.

The Third Front, he added, would launch an awareness campaign from Mumbai, Kanyakumari, Amritsar and Kolkata, while a meeting is scheduled on March 19 in New Delhi's Ramleela Maidan.

On FDI, Yechury said CPI-M would continue to oppose it though Parliament had passed the bill.

"During NDA regime, Congress had supported us on FDI. Now BJP is with us," he said, taking a dig at the two parties' "political opportunism".