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Mulayam meets Sukhbir, scotches Third Front speculation
KV Prasad
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 22
In a deft political move, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav reached out to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal here today and expanded the anti-UPA reforms platform.

The SP chief denied that the call-on had anything to do with the talk of creating an alternate political front that has been under discussion in the media ever since he joined leaders of the Left parties, Telugu Desam and Janata Dal (Secular) to court arrest here protesting the fresh dose of reforms by the Manmohan Singh Government. Yadav, who reached the residence of the Punjab Deputy Chief Minister here, discussed the current political situation and recalled his long association with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal through Chaudhary Charan Singh and struggles during emergency.

Sources privy to the discussion said here that the former U P Chief Minister said the SAD was among the oldest political parties in the country that is known to take up the causes of the farmers and rural peasantry. He also welcomed the move by the SAD to oppose the decision of the UPA Government to permit FDI in multi-brand retailing that would severely hit the small and medium enterprises, cottage industry and the local retail traders in the country.

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