With Left boost, SP opens Third Front window

The meetings will be jointly addressed by the all-powerful CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat, Rajya Sabha MP, Sitaram Yechury, and SP leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP, Amar Singh, and Lok Sabha MP, Ram Gopal Yadav.

Sources say the Hyderabad and Mumbai venues are critical in the SP8217;s scheme for a Third Front initiative8212;the SP-CPIM tirade will take on the Congress in the two states it rules8212;Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, where it runs a coalition government with ally Sharad Pawar8217;s NCP.

While Pawar is a potential Third Front ally8212;after all, he had left the Congress protesting against Sonia Gandhi8217;s 8216;8216;foreign origins8217;8217;8212;the SP has been working overtime to bring the Telugu Desam and its leader Chandrababu Naidu, back into the fold.

8216;Governor Sonia stooge8217;

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh today lashed out at UP Governor, T V Rajeshwar Rao, accusing him of becoming a stooge of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. Singh accused Rao of 8216;8216;interfering in the affairs of the state at the behest of Gandhi.8217;8217; Singh said, 8216;8216;The Governor is not acting as a 8216;rajyapal8217; but as a 8216;dwarpal8217; doorkeeper for 8216;Desh ki Rani8217; the country8217;s queen Sonia Gandhi.8217;8217;