In a written statement, veteran CPI leader A.B. Bardhan said, “Only a non-Congress non-BJP coalition, which pursues credible alternative policies on people’s issues, which steers the country on a Left and democratic course, is the need of the hour. Such a programme-based coalition government can emerge through struggles and may be after the polls. Only such a front can provide a viable alternative to the present dispensation. The Left parties are working towards that end.”
