KOLKATA, Mar 8 : The National Democratic Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani on Friday dismissed the possibility of a third front assuming power at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls, as “India has been divided into a bipolar polity.”

“No government is possible that is not assisted by either the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party,” Mr. Advani said here.

“The choice is very clear.” What the BJP-led NDA will take to the people is the offer of “good governance, development and security.”

The country saw what the United Progressive Alliance government — “that of Sonia Gandhi, not of Manmohan Singh” — had had to offer the people in the past five years.

Though the NDA government “went [out of power] in 2004 because of overconfidence,” the UPA government “is the first one that cannot show the public one single thing that it might have done for their good,” Mr. Advani said.

“It [the UPA] has failed on all fronts — economic, social and on security.”