Only post- poll tieup will form govt after LS elections: Yechury
New Delhi, May 22: Political leaders are free to form any kind of front before the 2019 elections, but only a post- poll alliance would form government after the Lok Sabha polls, CPI( M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Tuesday.
“Nobody can be denied their democratic rights,” Mr Yechury said, referring to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s idea of a “Federal Front” to take on the BJP.
“Let’s see how things unfold. People can have their ambitions, arithmetics. Nobody can be denied their democratic rights. Remember, in India, the fronts that formed governments were always forged after the elections.
“Many people form many fronts before elections. But, the government would be formed based on a post- poll alliance,” Mr Yechury told reporters.
He recalled that the United Front was formed after the 1996 elections, and the UPA was cobbled together after the 2004 polls.
On the political situation in West Bengal, the leader said that the Left parties’ main objective would be to defeat both the BJP and the Trinamul Congress.
“In Bengal, there is no question of joining hands with the BJP to oust the TMC or vice versa,” Mr Yechuri asserted.
He also criticised Ms Banerjee for “murdering democracy in West Bengal”.
On one hand, Ms Banerjee hails the “victory of democracy” in Karnataka and on the other hand, she “murders democracy” in Bengal, he said.
Asked about the Left’s strategy, he said that the Left defeated the Congress in West Bengal in 2004 and helped it form the UPA at the Centre.
In Bengal, there is no question of joining hands with the BJP to oust the TMC or vice versa — Sitaram Yechury,
CPM leader