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Members of the Left parties, BSP and UNPA met on Wednesday, July 23, the day after failing to topple the UPA government, for tracing out their next course of action. The meeting was convened at the residence of the BSP chief Mayawati in New Delhi and was attended by H D Deve Gowda (JDS), G Devrajan (Forward Bloc), Abani Ray (RSP), Prakash Karat (CPM), A B Bardhan, D Raja (CPI), Ajit Singh (RLD), N Chandrababu Naidu (TDP), K Chandrashekhar Rao (TRS), Ajay Chauthala (INLD) and Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand Vikas Morcha).
Prakash Karat, the CPM leader, declared that a nationwide campaign will be whipped up by the Third Front against the nuclear deal, inflation and bribery. The chief of BSP, Mayawati commented that it is democracy that turned out to be the biggest casualty of UPA’s win on Tuesday. ‘UPA’s victory is engineered and the government has lost the moral authority,’ she stated.
H D Kumaraswamy, the ex Karnataka CM and son of Deve Gowda, had to leave the meeting because of a prior commitment. But he pronounced that JD(S) would ‘strengthen’ Mayawati by ‘collaborating’ with her. ‘We would like to strengthen Third Front in Karnataka’, said HD Kumaraswamy. Chandrashekhar Rao, who appeared alongside Mayawati, said that in the coming time the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) would join hands with the BSP. ‘We will work together,’ said Rao prior departing for
