Mulayam hosts Third Front meet -- minus Left

November 06, 2014 13:47

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today hosted leaders of several opposition parties at a lunch meeting at his Delhi home, among them RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and JD-U's Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav.

What makes today's meeting different from several other attempts that Yadav has attempted is to stitch together a Third Front of non-Congress and non-BJP parties -- in the absence of the Left.

Today's lunch in effect was an effort to create a "pressure or influence group of like-minded parties" ahead of the winter session of Parliament.

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