Third force emerging, says Deve Gowda

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 29. The former Prime Minister and President of the Janata Dal (Secular), Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda, said that a ``third force'' with secular credentials was emerging in the country.

Speaking to presspersons here on Friday he said the meeting of senior leaders, including Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mr. Jyoti Basu, Mr. Mahanta and himself, at Thiruvananthapuram recently, had given enough indication of the urgent need for a third political force.

The meeting, initiated by the CPI(M), was the first step in evolving a third force with democratic and secular credentials. The Samajavadi Party leader, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav, was likely to join hands with it, he added. He reiterated his stand that the Janata Dal(S) would support any party which kept away from both the BJP and the Congress(I).

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