Indian Regional Parties Move Toward Gandhi, BJP Alternative
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Eleven Indian regional parties said they were forming a bloc to coordinate positions in the current session of parliament, a precursor to a possible coalition in national elections due by May.
“The bloc has been set up primarily to raise issues affecting the people in parliament,” Sitaram Yechury, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), told reporters in New Delhi yesterday after a meeting of regional-party leaders. “A joint program will be launched later” on campaigning together in the general election, he said.