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Mayawati, Third Front leaders meet but skirt leadership issue

Mar 16, 2009 bsp

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Third Front leaders, who met over dinner here to discuss Lok Sabha election strategies, said there was no decision on any prime ministerial candidate but added they would join hands to form a strong alternative to the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

After the dinner which was a matter of intense political speculation over the weekend, Mayawati, flanked by the leaders of the newly formed Third Front, read out a prepared statement saying they would all contest elections to prevent a government led either by the Congress or the BJP.

Mayawati as well as the Third Front leaders refused to answer mediapersons’ queries, including on the question of the prime ministerial candidate…More..

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