The Left-led Third Front seems to be disintegrating, with AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa reportedly refusing to adhere to their seat-sharing pact in Tamil Nadu.
The State units of the CPI and the CPI(M) have scheduled a meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation arising out of the AIADMK’s refusal to concede the expected six seats to the Left front. Jayalalithaa is reportedly willing to give only one seat each to the CPI and the CPI(M).
Candidates listOn her 66th birthday last week, the Tamil Nadu CM had released a list of party candidates for all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the State and the one seat in Puducherry.
But she later said there would be changes to factor in her seat-sharing deal with the Left. However, the Left parties have not heard anything from the AIADMK so far.
“We have not heard anything from her in the last 15 days. We have to discuss the strategy,” a CPI(M) leader said.
Significantly, Jayalalithaa had not attended a meeting of the “non-Congress, non-BJP front” in Delhi on February 25.
Unlike other senior leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United), who attended this meeting, the AIADMK chose to send a representative.