CPI(ML) urges Left to form third front

By Our Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI, MARCH 19. The State committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninists) has invited the CPI and the CPI(M) to join hands to form a third front since the NDA and the Congress front at the Centre, and the DMK and AIADMK fronts in Tamil Nadu had betrayed the farm labourers, small and marginal farmers and the Dalits.

Mr. S. Balasundaram, the general secretary of the CPI(ML), briefing newsmen after the meeting of the committee, said that the party decided to contest 20 seats in the State and hoped the left parties would realise that supporting the DMK or AIADMK fronts would not help the poorer and weaker sections. In the name of secular front, the left parties had weakened themselves and their ideologies and principles.

The split in the Dravidian parties, and the infighting in all the other parties in the State had totally exposed their opportunism. The leftist parties could serve the people by forming a third front. By aligning with the DMK or the AIADMK fronts, the Dalits too have been disillusioned, and the CPI(ML) welcomed the Dalit parties to join the third front.

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