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SP for Congress, rules out tie-up with Third Front

Apr 26, 2009 sp

The Samajwadi Party on Sunday said it was open to a tie-up with the Congress after the Lok Sabha polls but ruled out any truck with the Third Front and the Left as they were aligned with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

“As long as our arch rival BSP chief Mayawati is with the Left parties or the Third Front, we are not going for any post-poll tie-up with them,” said Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, in the city to canvass for his party candidates..More

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Pawar to power a ‘Left’ turn to UPA, what happens to Third Front?

Apr 23, 2009 aiadmk, bsp, sp, tdp

The Nationalist Congress Party chief, Sharad Pawar has expressed the desire to bring Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal, and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) party under the ‘umbrella of UPA’. He pointed out that Left was an integral part of UPA and will be.

Pawar, on Thursday said that Left’s co-operation and blessings are required for UPA to function..read more.

Analysis: So SP, RJD, LJP will join UPA. Fine. The Left also will join UPA. What happens to the ‘Third Front’? Will all the allies of Third Front (i.e. PMs in waiting) join the UPA? If so, imagine SP and BSP, Chandrababu Naidu and YSR, DMK and AIDMK - all in UPA!

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Third Front could affect poll outcome, concedes PM

Apr 12, 2009 sp

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday conceded that the decision of some Congress allies to form a separate front could affect the electoral outcome and said the Left parties and the Third Front were “unwittingly” helping the BJP.

“I would like the Samajwadi Party and Lok Janshakti Party to work together (with Congress). This could affect the electoral outcome to some extent,” he told journalists of the Indian Women’s Press Corps at an interaction in New Delhi.

He said he sincerely thought that the Left parties and Third Front would not be in a position to form a Government…More..

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Amar Singh says no to ‘Third Front’

Mar 17, 2009 sp

Amar Singh

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Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh on Monday, Mar 16 said that there was no hope for his party joining the Third Front with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader Prakash Karat at its helm.

“With Karat being at the helm, I see no such hope of joining the Third Front,” Singh made the remark when asked if there is a possibility of the SP joining the Third Front if the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) walked out of the alliance…More..

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