CPI-M: Congress won't succeed with another UPA try

New Delhi: The Congress won`t succeed with another UPA experiment as it has lost all credibility and the best ideal approach to vanquish the BJP in the following Lok Sabha election will be to pool in all hostile to BJP votes statewise, the CPI-M has said.

"The Congress would like to build an extended out UPA style alliance to counter the BJP," said an editorial in the CPI-M diary "People`s Democracy" following the Bharatiya Janata Party`s crush in two Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh.

"In any case, this won't succeed. The Congress has no validity to lead such a partnership as far as an alternative program.

"There are many regional parties like the BJD in Odisha, the TRS in Telangana and the TDP in Andhra Pradesh who won't acknowledge to be a partner in an alliance with the Congress," it said.

"There are different parties who are careful of tolerating the Congress as the pioneer of the partnership," the CPI-M included, naming itself as one of them.

Also, any effort to build a non-BJP, non-Congress "Federal Front" mooted by Telangana Chief Minister K.C. Rao wasalso bound to fail, the editorial warned.

"Some regional parties like DMK and RJD are with Congress in their respective states. Further, there are numerous logical inconsistencies among the provincial gatherings regarding approaches and local interests which will keep all the local gatherings (from) meeting up.

"In this way, most effective electoral tactics to defeat the BJP in the Lok Sabha race will be to guarantee pooling of against BJP votes state-wise. This is the thing that occurred in the UP by-elections."

The CPI-M said the BJP`s overcome in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-decisions would have significant implications for the future.

"The UP by-election provides important lessons to the future regarding race strategies to overcome the BJP. In the event that the BJP loses the greater part of the seats in UP, it can't come anyplace close to a lion's share in the Lok Sabha."