Midnapore, Sept 23: Veteran CPI leader Indrajit Gupta on Thursday said it was too early to predict whether a Third Front could be formed at the initiative of the Left parties after the coming polls. "At present, only the leftists are talking of a Third Front. The other parties have not reacted positively to it so far," Gupta told PTI in an interview here.He described `exit polls' as a `big fraud' when asked to comment on the projections of pollsters that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was likely to emerge victorious in the coming polls. "I would like to know the data on which it is based," he said.
Gupta said the country was likely to get another coalition government, as the polls would throw up a hung parliament, with no single party securing a majority.
Asked to comment on the stability of such a dispensation, he said, "I think coalition governments can be stable provided they are based on a common minimum programme."
"But the coalition should not be dependent on outside support, and the parties in government must have majority on their own," Gupta, who is in the fray from the prestigious Midnapore Lok Sabha constituency, said.
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