The Communist Party of India expressed confidence that the ten-party grouping consisting of the Left, Bahujan Samaj Party and the United Nationalist Progressive Alliance may soon emerge as "a real alternative" to the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan said.
The emergence of such a bloc would be a big blow to leading parties like Congress and BJP, which want to polarise the polity into a two-party system.
"The ten parties have rallied on a common platform on the issues of the nuclear deal, price rise and government turning institutions into political tools. The future of the combination, I think, is optimistic. It can grow into a real alternative," Bardhan told media-persons in Delhi.
Bardhan also appealed to secular parties who are with Congress or the BJP to "re-think and reconsider their