Third front not a viable alternative: CPI

Chennai, June 14: Questioning the secular credentials of AIADMK and TDP, which have mooted the idea of a Third Front at the national level, the Communist Party of India (CPI) today said it was not a viable alternative.

Addressing a press conference here, CPI State Secretary D Pandian said ''they have named it as a third front. But it is yet to take shape. It has neither clarity of politics nor any clear perspective.

We have to wait and watch. But definitely, it's not a viable alternative.'' Except for Samajwadi President Mulayam Singh Yadav, one of the architects of the proposed third front, the AIADMK and the TDP had allied with the BJP at one time or other.

''But now they say that the front is a non-Congress, non-BJP combine,'' he noted.

Referring to the AIADMK's opposition to the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project in the name of existence of Ramar bridge, Mr Pandian alleged that more than the BJP, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa appears to be fighting for a death case, echoing only religious sentiments devoid of politics.

''It was the same Jayalalithaa, which had included the SSCP in her party manifesto. But she is opposing it now and pleading for protection of 'non-existent' Ramar bridge supposed to have been built 17 lakh years ago and which has not been in use. It smacks of unscientific religious bigotry,'' he asserted.

UNI

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