Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has termed the grand alliance of opposition parties as an idea to be tried, tested and dismissed. Jaitley said it would have been good that this (election) was between Rahul and Modi from the presidential system (like America).

In an interview, Jaitley said that the "2019 Lok Sabha election will be purely a referendum on one issue whether we want to bring Modi back again" He said that this time, in the voters, there will be an option to choose between Modi and the obscure thoughts. He said that during the assembly elections of the recent five states,

only one experiment like the Maha coalition in Telangana has failed miserably when there were united opposition parties against Telangana supporters TRS. A similar scenario will be seen in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections when the parties with different ideologies will come together and confuse the public.

Jaitley said that the idea of creating a major coalition has already been broken. Now two different ideas of the coalition are going on. While there are Congress, DMK, TDP and some communist parties, on the other hand Telangana Nation Committee is trying to create a non-Congress, Non-BJP Federal Front.