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Four days after declaring that it would form an alliance neither with the Congress-NCP nor the Shiv Sena-BJP,the unified Republican Party of India (RPI) on Saturday joined the Third Front saying it will provide a third alternative in the assembly elections.
Third Front leaders welcomed the decision at their first meeting with RPI leaders on Saturday. The next meeting is on Monday,when the number of seats to be contested and the leadership issue will be discussed. The seat-sharing is also expected to be taken up at the meeting.
CPM state secretary Ashok Dhawale told The Sunday Express that RPI leaders,including Ramdas Athawale and Rajendra Gavai,attended Saturdays meet. He said the front would soon make an announcement on the number of seats to be contested.
The leaders of CPI,Janata Dal (Secular) and Samajwadi Jan Parishad also attended the meeting at the office of the Peasants and Workers Party (PWP).
The RPI joining the front in the run-up to the assembly elections is significant as it is for the first time in the past two decades that the party has decided to sever its ties with the Congress. Athawale has unified various factions of the RPI (except the one headed by Prakash Ambedkar) for the elections,after his defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections from Shirdi,where he had contested in the Congress quota.
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