The probability of renaming United Progressive Alliance(UPA) to the People’s Progressive Alliance (PPA) is on talks. The idea of renaming it could have probably arisen in order to avoid further corruption scams and scandals associated with it.
In case if the name is changed, all the old parties in the UPA would soon position themselves by the new name, be it before or after elections. These prior parties have earlier decided to fight in unity against BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With a lot of political baggage linked with UPA, the idea of modifying the name has arrived post the group discussion between parties. Last week, Mamata Banerjee had announced a pre-poll tie-up and a Common Minimum Programme on February 25 or 26 after a meeting among Opposition leaders. The meeting was attended by the Congress President Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Delhi chief minister, and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. But the decision to finalize a pre-poll tie-up is not yet made as there are various arch-rivals to compete for the upcoming pollls.
As per the inside sources, the TMC had approached the BJP leader and ex UM Yashwant Sinha to draft a document even before Mamata Banerjee announced about it. But when asked about the same to Mr Sinha, he said no one had approached him for drafting any CMP. He also confirmed that he would not be able to attend a possible meeting on Feb 25 as he have already made other commitments.
