Third Front Attempt? Arvind Kejriwal Planned Meet With 7 Chief Ministers

New Delhi: 

A fresh effort to move towards a Third Front ahead of 2024 general elections appears to have nosedived. This time, the author was Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who wanted to enhance cohesion and form a forum of non-BJP, non-Congress Chief Ministers, with what, sources indicated, could be an eye to 2024. But the dinner he invited them to, never happened, with his invitees returning a less-than-warm response.

The Delhi Chief Minister — who has been battling the Centre and its representative, the Lieutenant Governor, since coming to power in 2014 — wrote to seven Chief Ministers, inviting them to Delhi on March 18. The idea was to find common cause and form a “progressive group of Chief Ministers” who were battling the Centre on similar issues.