THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pitching for a candidate with secular credentials the presidential poll, the CPI on Sunday said the Delhi meeting of opposition parties to discuss a joint candidate could well be the beginning of a joint front against the BJP "The time has come to move with a united programme against the Bharatiya Janata Party. "But we do not know how much weight Shah carries, as everything is decided by (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi. We will wait for 15-20 days to hear from the BJP. We can look for others willing to join this move," the CPI leader said.Reddy flayed the Modi government on the BJP's poll promise of creating two crore new jobs every year. "By their own admission, all they say is that only 1.40 crore jobs have been created in three years," he said.

Source: Economic Times May 28, 2017 10:52 UTC