UF panel to dwell on Mulayam’s pro-Cong leaning

HYDERABAD, Dec 6: The United Front’s core committee which is meeting in New Delhi on Monday will discuss Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s statement expressing his inclination for an electoral tie-up with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

Disclosing this to mediapersons here today, UF convener and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu refused to comment further on the views expressed by the Defence Minister. “I do not want to react to his statement. The core committee will discuss all these things,” he said.

Naidu said the committee would evolve a common strategy and election manifesto for all the Front constituents.