Prakash Karat woos Jayalalithaa and Naidu

New Delhi, May 15: Prakash Karat, general secretary of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) invited Jayalalithaa chief of AIADMK to attend the Third Front meeting on May 18. He is also trying to lure Chandrababu Naidu of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) who is also in constant touch with Jaya.

Earlier Karat said that the leaders of the Left and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would meet on May 18 to discuss the possibility of forming an alternative secular government. Later, he said that the Left parties will meet in New Delhi on May 17 which will be followed by the CPI (M)'s Politburo meeting on May 18 and Central Committee the following day.

ANI