New Delhi: Seeking to broad base the opposition to Indo-US nuclear deal, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat held discussion with leaders of the Third Front who said there was a need for like minded non-Congress and non-BJP parties to come together to reject the agreement.
Ahead of a possible advancing of the winter session of Parliament, Karat met Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu to fine tune floor coordination in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Later in the evening, the Third Front leaders met at the residence of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala where they demanded the setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to go into the nuclear deal which they said should be first approved by Parliament.
Briefing reporters after the two-hour meeting, the Third Front leaders predicted the fall of the UPA government and asked like minded non-Congress and non-BJP parties to come forward against the nuclear deal.
"While BJP-led NDA lost on the 'feel good' factor, the UPA government will go on the 'deal good' factor," UNPA spokesman Amar Singh told reporters.
On what transpired between Karat and the Third Front leaders in the morning, he parried a direct reply saying the Left and Third Front have always had coordination and it would be there in the future.
Naidu said the future of the anti-Congress and anti-BJP Front appreared to be "bright" and said the Third Front would like to work with "like-minded parties" that are not with Congress and BJP.
