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Third Front

India's communists, JD(S) and several other regional parties have come together to launch a "third front" in the country's politics.

The group is meant to be an alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - the two main players in the forthcoming elections.

The "third front" was launched at a massive rally in the town of Tumkur in the southern state of Karnataka.

Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, the driving force behind the new group, called upon the people to vote for a "democratic and secular" government in the elections.

Speakers at the rally said both the Congress and the BJP-led alliances had failed to address people's grievances.

"This is a historic get-together of all democratic, secular and Left parties in the country to declare that we are all coming together to constitute a third force in this country," Prakash Karat, leader of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)

"Today we have come together because the country needs a new alternative."

The launch was attended by senior leaders from Janata Dal (Secular) party, CPI(M), Communist Party of India (CPI), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Forward Bloc (FB), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS).