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Even as chances of a third front taking shape before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections appear bleak with front-runner Bahujan Samaj Party deciding to go alone in the upcoming polls, the Communist Party of India-Marxist hopes to evolve a issue-based joint front of political parties.
"There is already a group of eight political parties, which have come together on the issue of nuclear deal and planned a joint programme on September 25 in Parliament as part of their nation-wide campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal," CPI-M Uttar Pradesh secretary S P Kashyap said in Lucknow.
The parties, scheduled to meet President Pratibha Patil to raise a demand for convening early Parliament session, plan more such joint programmes in future, Kashyap said.
Although the CPI-M has already lost hopes of contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the BSP after its president Mayawati announced that her party would be going alone in the coming polls, it was still hopeful that coming together of these eight parties would pave the way for a 'wider understanding'.
"We do not look at things just from the election point of view," Kashyap said, adding that there are issues such as nuclear deal, inflation, communalism among others as well as the 'failure' of the UPA government, which provided a common platform for these parties to come closer.
On the need for taking BSP along despite it making a u-turn on electoral alliance even though an understanding was reached on the nuclear deal issue, Kashyap said that BSP, which has a wide reach, was the party and the voice of the downtrodden. CPI-M is also waging a war on the same lines, he said.
"As for an understanding on the Lok Sabha elections, there is no need for talking with the BSP after she had made its intentions clear," Kashyap added.