abstract:Third front, launched in March 2009, is a coalition of Left and major regional parties in India vowing to defeat the Congress-led UPA and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA in general elections and form the union government. The formation was said to address the “country’s need for a new alternative.
The 52-year-old daughter of a government clerk who grew up in a shanty town in the capital, Delhi, has emerged as the pivot of a fledgling "third front" in Indian politics.
There has again been speculation about the revival of a "third front" - a loose alliance of regional parties - to take on the ruling Congress party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.