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No talks with Mulayam on third front: Sukhbir
Badal
Sunday September 23, 2012 08:23:24 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: Following
speculation over his meeting with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam
Singh Yadav in New Delhi Saturday, Shiromani Akali Dal president
Sukhbir Singh Badal Sunday said that there was no talk about a
third front formation then.
Badal, who is also the deputy chief minister of Punjab, clarified
that nothing political should be read into his meeting with
Mulayam Singh. He said his family had "old relations" with the
Samajwadi Party chief and "we keep on meeting on various social
occasions, exchanging our notes".
He reiterated that there was no question of a third front in the
present political scenario as only the National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) would form the next government at the centre after
the Lok Sabha elections, whenever they are held.
The Akali Dal has close ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),
which leads the NDA, for the past many years. The Akali Dal and
the BJP run an alliance government in Punjab.
Badal said that people have already made their mind to "kick out
the most corrupt UPA government and bring back NDA to power".
He was replying to media queries at a function in Jalandhar
district, 140 km from here. Badal was present there with Communist
Party of India-Marxist leaders, including Sitaram Yechuri, to pay
tributes to communist leader Harkishen Singh Surjeet.
Badal said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government
at the centre was on a ventilator and early elections were
inevitable. He said the UPA was surviving on borrowed time with
"oxygen cylinders" of various political parties.
Opposing the move by the centre to allow foreign direct investment
(FDI) in multi-brand retail sector, Badal alleged that the UPA
government had taken the decision to help a few multi-national
corporations.
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