Launching a tirade against the Third Front, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday it has become a "fashion" these days to form new political fronts but asserted that none of them could pose a challenge to the Congress.
"You are hearing of the formation of a third front. There can even be a fourth, fifth and sixth front as well but can anyone form a front that can fight poverty, terrorism, communalism, illiteracy and backwardness?" Gandhi asked at an election rally at Vizianagaram in north coastal Andhra.
"It is ridiculous that Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu, who is spearheading the so-called third front, had till recently rubbed shoulders with the communal Bharatiya Janata Party and supported the National Democratic Alliance that was mired in corruption, scandals, Tehelka saga and the communal carnage in Gujarat," the United Progressive Alliance chairperson lashed out.
At a rally in Karimnagar, the hotbed of movement for separate Telangana state, Gandhi sought to reach out to the voters saying Congress is not against the formation of separate Telangana state. "Telangana is a priority issue for us. Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has already announced on the floor of the assembly that Congress is not against Telangana," she said. Claiming that massive development work have been taken up in the region by the Congress government,
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