New Delhi: After consistently maintaining that he would prefer to sit in the Opposition than support a Congress government at the Centre, CPM chief Prakash Karat said on Saturday that he would think about any post poll alliances only after the 16th of May, when the verdict is out
"Let the elections be over first. Let the results come. After May 16 we will think," Karat told reporters during a brief meet at airport in Kolkata.
Karat, who was in the city to campaign for CPM candidates, was specifically asked to comment on Congress courting support of the Left.
He had previously declined to support any Congress-led government.
Earlier, despite CPM general secretary Prakash Karat having categorically ruled out support to a Congress-led government at the Centre again, senior party politburo member Sitaram Yechury had said the party's next step would be decided only after the elections.
"We will decide what will happen post election, but right now our objective till the elections are over is the third alternative. However, we do not think the need to support a Congress-led government will arise," Yechury said.
Asked about Karat's statement in Kolkata recently that the Left would not extend support to a Congress-led coalition again, Yechury said, "I do not know in what context he had said this. We will meet and decide what will happen post-election."
Yechury said the Congress leaders were openly saying after the third phase of the elections that they would take support of the Left if the opportunity to form a government arose. (With PTI inputs)