Third Front not to project any PM candidate: CPI

April 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Rubbishing statements by some UPA partners that the coalition's prime ministerial nominee was still undecided, Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma Friday said the party's choice Manmohan singh would occupy the high post if the alliance comes to power. 'The Congress will lead the UPA government.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Friday that NCP chief Sharad Pawar may join the Third Front after the elections, as the "logic would lead him towards this option." "Right now we are not having any understanding with him regarding the Third Front...But I think the logic of the situation would lead him to also consider this option," Karat told NDTV. The CPI (M) leader admitted that Pawar would have various options open after the elections, but ultimately it could be Third Front that he may choose.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said it will support the Nagaland People's Front (NPF) candidate in the northeast state, as the party declared its candidates for 29 Lok Sabha seats in six states. The party announced candidates for four seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in Maharashtra, seven in Andhra Pradesh, three in Orissa, five in Kerala and one in Manipur.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu said on Wednesday that the decision on the Third Party's prime ministerial candidate would be taken by consensus. Talking to the reporters here, Naidu said, "There is only one seat for prime minister's post.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Steel Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said that all the leaders in the Third Front were aspirants to occupy the chair of Prime Minister. "An atmosphere is being created in the Third Front in the name of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A meeting of the Left parties and other Third Front partners here Sunday decided not to project any leader as their prime ministerial candidate before the Lok Sabha elections. The decision came minutes before Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati hosted a dinner for the leaders of the new formation at her new residence here.

March 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu Sunday said the Third Front would not project any leader as Prime Minister candidate.

March 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will project a chief ministerial candidate in Orissa in the upcoming assembly polls, a party official said here Saturday. Assembly polls in Orissa will be held together with the Lok Sabha polls.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister and Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee Saturday ridiculed the newly-formed Third Front, saying it could never come to power on its own. 'I do not understand the nomenclature the Third Front is using.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid speculation that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati would join the Third Front if she was named its prime ministerial candidate, the Left parties Saturday said the alliance would chose its leader for the top job only after the elections. 'We will choose the prime minister after the general elections,' said Communist Party of India (CPI) national deputy general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy.

March 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today invited the third front leaders for further discussions on the issues related to the front in New Delhi on Sunday. In a bid to revive the united front at the centre, leaders of several non-BJP, non-Congress parties launched a Third front with the aim of usurping power in Delhi.

March 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, aspiring to become the prime minister after the Lok Sabha elections, will have her first meeting with Third Front leaders Sunday. Two of the main forces behind the Third Front, the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and Communist Party of India (CPI) gave contradictory indications Friday on whether the group will go to the polls in April-May with a prime ministerial candidate or decide on it after the results.

March 14th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday said that the Third Front would not announce any candidate for Prime Minister's post before the Lok Sabha elections are held. "The Third Front will not project anyone as its Prime Ministerial candidate during electioneering," said A.

March 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - Leaders of the proposed Third Front Thursday discussed the outlines of the programme to be adopted in building an alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but declined to say whether they had agreed on a common agenda. 'We are not going to say anything now,' Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) president and former prime minister H.D.

January 18th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Monday expressed fears that the much talked about Rs.15 billion 'Smart City' project proposed in Kochi is unlikely to materialise. 'Things have reached a point of no return and it appears that we have lost the project,' UDF convenor P.P.