We're optimistic because it'll come about. I see all the possibilities for the Third Front to be constituted. There are several parties which are opposed to the BJP and at the same time opposed to the Congress. This means if the Left takes an initiative and brings these parties together, the Third Front can be constituted. But in the past we've seen that the non-Left parties in the Third Front were not so stable and eventually broke away.
Parties do exist and that is a reality.
Some parties suffer from opportunism also for the sake of power and that is one aspect. The other aspect is that even these parties are basically secular and democratic and therefore they do not want to ally with parties like BJP as I said earlier. The second point is by the Third Front you are referring to the last United Front. But you must remember that United Front was a creature of certain circumstances. The 13 parties which constituted the United Front, did not come together on the basis of a common programme.