Salem: CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury ruled out the possibility of a third front achieving any success in Tamil Nadu in the current political scenario.
A third front would be of no help because the primary objective of the people was to defeat the BJP and the AIADMK, he told reporters in Salem on Friday when asked about Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam forming a third front in the state.
“Kamal is a good friend of mine. But in politics, in this sort of a polarization, I don’t think a third front will be of any help because the primary objective is to defeat the BJP and AIADMK,” he said. “I don’t know if the third front is of any meaning now,’’ he said.
Under the current scenario, DMK was the best bet to defeat the BJP and its ally AIADMK, he said to another query.
“Tamil Nadu needs a change. The best opportunity, it appears, is under the leadership of DMK,” he said. Yechury said that in the past DMK has displayed maturity, responsibility of carrying together everybody. “We hope they will do that,” he said, adding that it would be easier to achieve the objective of defeating BJP when all parties are together.
Yechury said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s love for Tamil, expressed by way of quoting Thirukkural, was hypocrisy.
“He would do different things to get electoral benefits. Even Covid vaccination is a political electoral programme for him,’’ he said, recalling that one of the nurses who was present during his vaccination was from Tamil Nadu and another one was from Puducherry, which are heading towards an election.
Noting that the Centre did not grant the cyclone relief sought by the state government, Yechury said that his love for Tamil was only to deceive Tamil people.
On the postal ballots for people above 80 years, Yechury said that the persons who cast postal ballots should be physically verified. “We are waiting to see how the election commission is going to implement the postal ballot system,” he said.