 | Jarred notes force DMK leader MK Stalin to put Telangana CM KCR's Third front plan on holdHowever, a DMK spokesperson maintained that his party’s working president would always think in terms of cementing a strong secular alliance that included the Congress as well. |
 | JD (S)-Congress deal may derail TRS chief Chandrasekhar Rao’s Third Front plansParty leaders said KCR’s call to Telugu-speaking voters in Karnataka had helped JD(s) win considerable number of seats. |
 | Third Front not possible, opposition will unite before Lok Sabha polls: Sharad YadavYadav said he is regularly communicating with all political parties in opposition and will unite them when the time comes. |
 | Congress has to decide whether it will join federal front: Mamata BanerjeeShe predicted that in the upcoming Assembly polls in Karnataka, Congress would win it but has to take the support of the JD(S). |
 | Electoral alliances not formula-driven: Newly elected CPM General Secretary Sitaram YechuryYechury feels that all secular democratic parties need to first strengthen themselves in states and thereafter in Parliament to take on the BJP. |
 | Yashwant Sinha quits BJP, says he will run ‘robust campaign’ with Opposition leaders to save democracy in countryDissident BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who has not minced his words criticising the BJP-led central government held an event with opposition parties in Patna, Bihar today. |
 | CPM can't join hands with Congress, insists Prakash KaratFormer general secretary Prakash Karat made it categorically clear that there cannot and should not be any political understanding with the Congress. |
 | Federal Front: Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao to meet Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik in MayRao will go to Bhuvaneshwar in the first week of May to meet Naveen Patnaik to discuss about Federal Front plans. |
 | Left leader suggests worker-farmer alliance, Left democratic front including Congress, to defeat BJP-RSSAll India Kisan Sabha leader d K Krishnaprasad expressed anguish over the tussle between the Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat camps and the lack of unity within the CPI(M). |
 | Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao meets Deve Gowda to launch Third Front, asks Telugus in Karnataka to vote for JD (S)Rao had met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata recently to discuss the plans for evolving a coalition of regional parties. |
 | Did Centre’s proposal on poll dates make Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao go slow on Third Front?Party insiders say that the CM postponed meet on Federal Front after Centre’s proposal to hold simultaneous polls to LS and State Assemblies as per schedule. |
 | The countless narratives that plague the impossibility of a third frontThe TMC too will face an existential challenge from within, with factions and powerful syndicates clashing among themselves. |
 | There cannot be a federal front without Congress: Veerappa MoilyK Chandrashekhar Rao had recently said a non-Congress and non-BJP front should be formed in the country, and had called for a "qualitative change" in politics. |
 | Third front will be a stillborn child, says Congress leader Veerappa MoilyMoily asserted that only a "confederation" of parties, led by his national outfit, can take on the BJP-led NDA effectively. |
 | Need to prepare national agenda keeping in mind requirements of states: KCR on Third Front formation ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha pollTelangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has already announced plans to forge a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative at the Centre. |
