Guwahati: CPM is open to a post-poll alliance with AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa, who has dumped a pre-poll understanding with the Left Front in Tamil Nadu, if her party continues to maintain a non-Congress, non-BJP stance, a senior party leader said on Saturday.
“We are open to anyone who is non-Congress and non-BJP. In that case, if Jayalalithaa, Nitish Kumar or Naveen Patnaik continue to remain non-Congress and non-BJP, we are open to them to have a post-poll alliance,” CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said.
Asked specifically if CPM would forge an alliance with AIADMK after the polls despite the break before the elections, he said the Left parties have been seeking seat-sharing arrangements at the state level with regional parties who were non-Congress and non-BJP.
“With Jayalalithaa also, we had the same arrangement. She continues to be non-Congress and non-BJP. We have learnt from Indian history that since 1977, a pre-poll alliance has never formed a government,” he added.
On March 6, CPM and CPI had called off their month-old alliance with the Jayalalithaa-led party after getting miffed over ruling AIADMK’s “approach” in finalising seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu. Talking about the party’s expectations in the forthcoming Lok Sabha
