Kolkata:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati could be a prime ministerial candidate of a non-Congress and non-BJP alliance at the Centre depending on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(M) said on Tuesday.
"BSP is an important party and the ruling party in UP. We expect them to do well in Lok Sabha elections and therefore the leader of the BSP is going to be one of the people who I think will be considered," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said here.
Karat, who was briefing the media after the conclusion of the three-day central committee meeting of the CPI(M), was asked whether the CPI(M) would favour Mayawati as a prime ministerial candidate.
He, however, said "I think it is an issue which we will take at that time ... Our position is that we are working for a non-Congress and non-BJP dispensation at the Centre."
Karat said the central committee discussed the political situation in view of the forthcoming assembly elections in six states and the subsequent Lok Sabha poll
"For the Lok Sabha elections, the party has decided that it would adopt an electoral platform aiming to defeat BJP, which is a communal party advocating reactionary economic policies, and for the rejection of Congress that is forging strategic alliance with the United States and pursuing anti-people economic policies," he said.
The central committee discussed specific electoral tactics to be pursued in various states and gave direction for election preparations, he said.
