Alternative to BJP,Cong impossible without us: Left

Asked to comment Buddhadeb Bhattacharjees observation that formation of an alternative front is a tough challenge as various parties are splintered,Yechury said,Yes thats true. But,I feel that regional parties too are under pressure from their support base to look for alternative policies. Without the Left,there cant be alternative policies. We are in touch with Sharad Yadav and other anti-Congress,anti BJP parties.

When asked about the announcement of federal front by Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,he said,We are not giving any relevance to it.

Yechury noted that he had a conversation with Sharad Yadav,whom he had known for four decades,where Yadav had said the Left is the moral conscience of the country.

In Chennai,CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy said on Sunday,Our party thinks that the federal front proposal is meaningless. There is no use in just gathering and mobilising non-Congress,non-BJP and regional parties. It is not going to make any difference for people of the country. He was responding to a query on Mamatas recent remarks on forming a federal front of non-Congress and non-BJP parties.