The CPI(M) today said that there is no division within the party over its decision to pitch for a Third Front without the Congress or the BJP in the current Lok Sabha elections.
"There is no division within the party about going for a Third Front to keep the Congress and the BJP at bay. This time, we are fighting both the Congress and the BJP unlike in the 14th Lok Sabha elections during which we said that we will have to keep the BJP out," CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Biman Bose told a 'Meet-the-Press' programme at the Kolkata Press Club.
He was asked whether any decision in the party that it would not go with the Congress or if there was a division on this count.
Replying to a question on whether his party would prefer to sit in the opposition benches in the event the Third Front is unable to form the government, Bose said, "the final phase of elections are not over. The results will be out on May 16. I would, therefore, not comment about our post-poll strategy."
On BJP leader L K Advani's ruling out the victory of the Third Front, he said, "there should be no doubt about the Third Front. We have said that if it comes to power, it will form a secular government on the basis of a common minimum programme. Mr Advani's aims will not be fulfilled."