India Regional Parties Form Bloc as Alternative to Gandhi, Modi
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Eleven Indian parties agreed to campaign as one bloc in national elections due by May seeking to offer an alternative to the ruling Congress party-led coalition and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance.
“There has to be an alternative which has a democratic, secular, federal and pro-people development agenda,” Prakash Karat, leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), told a press conference in New Delhi yesterday. “Massive corruption” has become a hallmark of the Congress government, he said, and the BJP “has no policies different from that of the Congress.”