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Senior leaders of the newly formed Third Front will meet here today to finalise its strategy on the presidential polls.
Chennai, June 18 : Senior leaders of the newly formed Third Front will meet here today to finalise its strategy on the presidential polls.
According to sources, there were reports that the third political grouping will not back UPA-Left's presidential nominee Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Vice President Bhairon Singh Sekhawat.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief J. Jayalalithaa, who had asserted that the Front would not back UPA under any circumstances, said : "Front had three options before it - to put up a candidate of its own, support the candidature of a person who had already announced his intention of contesting or abstain from presidential election".
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bangarappa and Amar Singh (Samajwadi Party - SP), Chandrababu Naidu (Telugu Desam Party - TDP), Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand Vikas Morcha), Om Prakash Chautala (Indian National Lok Dal - INLD), Vaiko (Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Khazgam - MDMK) and P C Thomas (Kerala Congress (J)) will attend the meeting.
Six regional parties claiming themselves as 'Third Front' include, the TDP, the AIDMK, the MDMK, the SP, the INLD and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) of Assam - have formed a common political alternative to the ruling UPA and the opposition NDA.
ANI
