Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is eyeing an alliance with the Left Front in the state. Kumar, whose party the Janata Dal United is leading the movement along with the Left for a secular democratic alliance, said their focus is on a larger alliance at the national level.
"This will be a non-Congress and non-BJP front. There is a meeting on February 5 in Delhi," said Nitish in Patna on Monday just after the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Khazgham (AIADMK) clinched an alliance with the Left Front in Tamil Nadu.
JDU President Sharad Yadav, too, sounded optimistic about the formation of a non-Congress, non-BJP front. "The question of leadership is not important right now. All those who were part of meeting on October 30, 2013 are part of it. The BJP is selling dreams to the country. We will make a block in Parliament and on February 9 we will meet again," said Yadav.
"Jayalalithaa as leader? Every party worker want their chief to be a PM, it's not just AIADMK there are a number of such talks, but we want to form the front first. We have formed the government in the past too," said Yadav.
The proposed front is likely to include at least 14 parties with the constituents of the erstwhile Janata Dal forming the largest chunk even though the Left Front has denied that a formal political unit will be formed before the Lok Sabha elections.
An initiative of the Left Front and Janata Dal United, the group is likely to include Janata Dal Secular (JDS), Samajwadi Party, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), AIADMK and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) and will have regional electoral arrangements with the communist parties.
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