New Party Named Bahujana Left Front In Telangana

A new political group named Bahujana Left Front (BLF) was formed in Telangana "as an alternative to the present political parties in the state".

The party was formed with the coming together of 28 political parties representing various social groups and schools of thought, including MCPI, RSP, Forward Block, Telangana Communist Party, Bahujana Front, MBT and Mahajana Samithi among others.

Nalla Suryaprakasha Rao and CPM state secretary Thammineni Veerabhadram have been appointed as the BLF Chairman and state convener, respectively. The leaders of the new outfit are planning to conduct a huge public meeting on January 25 in Hyderabad. CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, Dr B R Ambedkar's grandson Prakash Ambedkar and other important leaders, too, are expected to attend the meeting. The organizers claimed that they were in talks to bring activists from every constituency to the meeting as well. The election of the new committee will happen at the meeting.

Speaking to the media about the reasons for forming a new party, the party leaders said that their aim was to achieve social justice for all sections of society, and comprehensive development of the state. They also said that the new front was in talks to contest all the 119 constituencies in the state in the upcoming general elections to be held in 2019.

Meanwhile, the CPI, too, announced that it would form a new political forum very soon. It said that the new forum which would consist of secular and democratic forces, and Left parties, was being floated as a platform to oppose the "anti-people" policies of the NDA government.