THE perennially fractured Indian Progressive Front (IPF), a small but politically significant party because of its Tamil working-class origins, has been given a new chance to sink differences, reunite and possibly become a Barisan Nasional member party.
At a meeting last Tuesday, leaders of all three main IPF factions agreed to sink their differences, let a free and fair election decide who gets to lead the party, and together try to win back the Tamil working-class support they once enjoyed before losing it to the Hindraf movement.