Top Left leaders to attend PWF public meeting: Vaiko

CHENNAI: Top Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and S Sudhakar Reddy will participate in a public meeting proposed to be held by the four-party Public Welfare Front in Madurai on January 26, MDMK leader Vaiko said on Friday.

Yechury and Reddy, General Secretaries of CPI (M) and CPI respectively, besides the leaders of the parties' state units will participate in the rally being held to explain PWF's Common Minimum Programme (CMP), Vaiko, who is the coordinator of the bloc, said.

MDMK, CPI(M), CPI and VCK are the members of the PWF which has invited DMDK led by actor-turned politician Vijayakant to join it.

Addressing his customary New Year press conference, Vaiko said the people were now opposed to both ruling AIADMK and DMK and expressed confidence about capturing power, riding on PWF's 'credibility'.

Making corruption charges against both DMK and AIADMK, he said the constituents and leaders of PWF had no such complaints against them.

Citing the case of Delhi, he said AAP was given a resounding victory in the Assembly election although BJP had earlier managed an impressive performance in Lok Sabha polls, and Tamil Nadu could witness a similar situation where both Dravidian parties could be shown the door by voters.

Replying to a question, he said that in the state politics no party names the chief ministerial candidate prior to polls but the majority MLAs elect them post-election. PWF would follow such a method, he added.

"PWF members were later slated to meet TMC leader GK Vasan," he said.

On the recent incident of DMDK leader Vijayakant's alleged indecent behaviour with journalists, he said it could have been avoided.

Taking a dig at the ruling BJP at the Centre, he said the party had not implemented its promises even as he slammed incidents of alleged intolerance, including the killing of rationalists like Narendra Dabholkar.

Vaiko said the party paid the price in the Bihar election which it lost.