THIRD FRONT=ALL PARTIES UNITED FRONT IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES IF THEY WANT TO WIN BALANCE ASSEMBLIES ELECTIONS AND PARLIAMENT ELECTION IN 2024, HAVE TO COME TOGETHER. QUESTION ARISES HOW AND WHY SO FAR THEY HAVE NOT COME TOGETHER DESPITE THEIR THINKING FOR A LONG TIME. WHY ALL OPPOSING PARTIES HAVE NOT COME TOGETHER SO LONG? PRACTIALLY ALL PARTIES WANTED TO EXPAND THEIR AREA OF INFLUENCE AND AS SUCH BECOME IMPORTANT AND/OR TURN OUT TO BE THE MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY. ALMOST ALL EXCEPT THOSE WHO ALIGNED WITH CONGRESS IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER, TURNED OUT ANTI CONGRESS AS THESE PARTIES BELIEVED THAT CONGRESS HAS BEEN FIGHTING ELECTIONS AGAINST BJP FOR LONG AND ALMOST HAVE BEEN ON THE LOSING AND DEGRESSING POSITION FURTHER THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE WORKING OF RAHUL GANDHI AND DIDN’T FEEL CONFIDENT THAT HE IS THE MATCH TO THE PM MR NARENDRA MODI NOR THE PUBLIC RATING SUPPORT RAHUL GANDHI TO BECOME THE FUTURE PRIME MINISTER. AS SUCH IN THE RECENT ELECTION, SITUATIONS HAVE CHANGED GOOD AND BAD FOR THESE OPPOSING PARTIES AND ALSO FOR BJP. BJP LOST ELECTION IN BENGAL WHICH DAMAGED ITS IMAGE TO A GREAT EXTENT. CONGRESS WITH DMK WON ELECTION IN TAMIL NADU TO TURN CONGRESS IN CONSOLATION. BUT NOW IN ALL THE 5 ELECTION ASSEMBLIES, CONGRESS LOST MISERABLY,IT IS SAID DUE TO INTERNAL FRICTIONS AND NOT HAVING GROUND ORGANISATION AND WORST OF ALL, CONGRESS LOST PUNJAB TO AAP, LOST UTTARKHAND WHERE IT HAD LOT OF HOPE AND MANY CHANCES, G-20 WANTED A CHANGE, CRITICISM BY THEM WENT ON, EXPOSING CONGRESS TO A PARTY OF FRICTIONS AND DIVISIONS. NOW THAT CONGRESS HAS LEARNT LESSON BY THE LOSS OF ELECTIONS, FRICTIONS IN THE PARTY ITSELF AND AS SUCH HAVE UNDERSTOOD UNTIL AND UNLESS IT DOES NOT BRING IN THE DESIRED CHANGES, THEY WILL BE NOWHERE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PM HAS DECLARED AND AIMS AT CONGRESS MUKT. IN SUCH A SITUATION OF DISTRESS AND IN REALISATION OF FACTS, CONGRESS HAS CLEARLY AND EXPLICITY SAID THAT IT IS READY TO MAKE ANY AND EVERY SORT OF SACRIFICE TO BRING IN THE OPPOSITION TOGETHER AND ACCORDINGLY WE FIND THAT THERE HAS BEEN MORE OR LESS UNITED OPPOSITION AGAINST BJP IN ALMOST ALL PARLIAMENT SESSIONS. BUT IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COME TOGETHER DESPITE THE FACT THAT IN MAHARASTHRA THE CONGRESS, NCP AND SHIV SENA DESPITE OPPOSING IDEOLOGIES HAVE COME TOGETHER AND ARE MANAGING TOGETHER DESPITE SMALL FRICTIONS HERE AND THERE. QUESTION; HOW AND WHY THE UNITED FRONT IN MAHARASHTRA REMAINS UNITED DESPITE THAT BJP IN MAHARASTHRA IS A SUBSTANTIAL FORCE AND HAS ALSO THE SUPPORT OF THE CENTRE. THE ANSWER TO ME SEEMS TO BE, THAT 1. THEY MUST HAVE A COMMON PROGRAMME 2. MR SHARAD PAWAR IS A SEASONED AND EXPERIENCED POLITICIAN WHOIS KEEPING CONGRESS, NCP AND SHIV SENA TOGETHER. 3. EACH PARTY FEELS AND IS DOING HARD NOT TO ALLOW BJP TO COME BACK TO POWER IN ANY MANNER, AND AS SUCH DESPITE CERTAIN OPPOSING VOICES, ALL CONSTITUENTS VIZ CONGRESS AND NCP CONTINUE SUPPORTING THAKERAY AS THE CM. NOW WHEN ALMOST ALL THE OPPOSING PARTIES SEE THAT THIS UNITED FRONT IN WORKING PRACTICALLY WELL IN MAHARASHTRA, THEN WHY IT SHOULD NOT WORK FOR THE ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES TO COME TOGETHER. TO MY MIND IT APPEARS 1. EGO 2. LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN CONGRESS AS NOT A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO BJP TO FIGHT AND COMBAT ELECTIONS ESPECIALLY AGAINST THE PRESENT PM, WHO HAS IMMENSE PUBLIC RATING AND APPROVAL AND IS ABLE TO TURN TABLES TO HIS PARTY ADVANTAGE WHEN AND WHERE HE GOES FOR CANVASSING. 3, OVERCONFIDENCE BY MAMTA BANNERJEE OF TMC AND KEJRIWAL OF AAP. AT PRESENT THE SITUATION IS THAT AAP DUE TO ITS WIN IN PUNJAB, IS EAGER TO EXPAND IN ALMOT ALL STATES AND IS NOW PUTTING IN ALL ITS EFFORTS IN GUJARAT FOR THE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS, WHICH I THINK WILL KEEP THE AAP AND CONGRESS DIVIDED AND WILL ENABLE THE BJP TO WIN ELECTION COMFORTABLY. BUT I FEEL IF THE OPPOSING PARTIES DO NOT COME TOGETHER NOW AND LOSE THE FORCOMGING ASSEMBLIES ELECTIONS, THEY WILL DESPITE THEIR COMING TOGETHER LATER, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMBAT THE BJP AND WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO WIN PARLIAMENT ELECTION. MORESO IN THE PRESENT SITUATION WHEN UKRAINE WAR IS GOING ON, PM MR NARENDRA MODI HAS ATTAINED A MOST COVETED AND INTERNATIONAL POSITION TO BE CONSULTED AND SOLICITED BY ALL THE WARRING CAMPS. QUESTION ARISES THEN WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN THESE ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES: AT PRESENT THERE SEEM TO BE THE FOLLOWING FORERUNNERS WHO ARE KEEN TO BRING IN THE UNITED FRONT OF ALL THE OPPOSING PARTIES AND THEREFOR, TO ME, SEEM TO BE THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS; MAMTA BANNERJEE WHO HAS GOOD RELATIONS WITH ALMOST ALL THE OPPOISITION PARTIES EXCEPT THE CONGRESS. SHARAD PAWAR HAS MANAGED AND IS MANAGING UNITED FRONT IN MAHARASHTRA, HE IS MOST RESPECTED POLITICIAN AND ACCEPTED BY ALL THE PARTIES INCLUDING CONGRESS. ACTION PLAN; I THINK, MAMTA BANNERJEE MUST SHUN HER EGO, GET TO CONGRESS, PLEAD AND CONVINCE THE CONGRESS FOR THE UNITED FRONT, WHICH I THINK IN THE PRESENT SITUATION, IS MUCH EASIER WHEN THE CONGRESS IS REALISING THAT THEY CANNOT WIN ELECTIONS ON THEIR OWN AND AS SUCH UNITED FRONT IS ESSENTIAL, HENCE THEY HAVE GOT CONVINCED AND ACCEPTED THAT THEY ARE READY TO MAKE ALL SACRIFICES. ONCE MAMTA BANNERJEE HAS GOT AGREED THE CONGRESS, SHE MUST TURN TO REST OF THE OPPOSITION PARTIES, WHERE I THINK SHE WILL HAVE AN EASY GO, EXCEPT PERHAPS WITH APP BUT I THINK AS SHE IS HAVING GOOD RELATIONS WITH KEJRIWAL, SHE WILL BE ABLE TO PERUADE HIM TO JOIN THE UNITED FRONT. TO BRING THE UNITED FRONT INTO ACTUALITY, I THINK FOLLOWING ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED; 1. COMMON PROGRAMME 2. TO PERSUADE MR. SHARAD PAWAR TO HEAD THE UNITED FRONT, AND FOR THIS CHOICE, I DO NOT THINK THERE WILL BE ANY OPPOSITION. ONCE HE IS SELECTED AND IS AUTHORISED TO BRING IN ALL THE OPPOSING PARTIES TO A UNITED FORUM, HE COULD PERHAPS INVITE THE VIEWS AND AGENDA FROM EACH PARTY, TO BE DISCUSSED AND DELIBERATED TO ARRIVE AT A COMMON PROGRAMME. TO IMPLEMENT THIS COMMON PROGRAMME IT WILL BE ESSENTIAL THAT THOSE WHO ARE KNOWN TO BE PROMINENT, VOCAL AND ARE WELL KNOWN TO ATTACT THE PUBLIC, BE SELECTED TO PROPAGATE TOGETHER AND UNITEDLY FOR THE COMMON PROGRAMME FOR ELECTIONS TO THE PARLIAMENT ALONE AND FOR THE ASSEMBLIES LEAVE IT TO LOCAL PARTIES AND THEIR LEADERS TO WORK OUT COMMON PROGRAMME TO FIGHT ELECTION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ASSEMBLIES ELECTIONS THEMSELVES, WHILE OF COURSE THE NATIONAL OPPOSING FRONT HELPS TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL LEADERS IN THEIR FIGHT FOR ELECTION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CONSTITUENCIES. I THINK AND FEEL SURE IF ALL THE OPPOSITE PARTIES FIGHT THE FOTHCOMING ASSEMBLIES ELECTIONS, THEY WILL DEFINITELY WIN AND TURN THE TABLE ROUND IN THEIR FAVOUR FOR THE PARLIAMENT ELECTION. FOR PARLIAMENT, THERE MIGHT ARISE WHOM TO DECLARE AS THE PM FACE ESPECIALLY WHEN FOR BJPMR. NARENDRA MODI IS AN ESTABLISHED FACE. IT WILL BE BETTER FOR THE UNITED FRONT TO SELECT THE PM FACE AND IF SOMEHOW THEY CANNOT ARRIVE AT A UNITED CHOICE, PERHAPS THE UNITED FRONT COULD ANNOUNCE THE POSSIBLE NAMES OF 2-3 OR MORE AS POSSIBLE PM FACES, TO BE DECIDED AND SELECTED BY THE MAJORITY OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH OF THESE PM FACE CANDIDATES, WHEREIN IT IS POSSIBLE THAT BIGGER PARTIES MAY BE ABLE TO GET DECIDED FOR THEIR CANDIDATE OR IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT SMALL PARTIES COME TOGETHER TO FORM A LARGER GROUP AND GET THEIR PM FACE SELECTED. I THINK AND FEEL SURE THAT UNITED FRONT IF BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE AND WORKED IN THE MANNER I HAVE PROPOSED, THERE IS EVERY POSSIBLITY THAT IT WILL BE ABLE TO WIN THE ASSEMBLIES ELECTIONS AND PARLIAMENT ELECTION AS WELL, AND IF NOT. IT WILL TURN OUT TO BE A FORMIDABLE FORCE WHICH IS NECESSARY FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF DEMOCRACY. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 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