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Mayawati likely to raise PM candidate issue with Front leaders

The UP chief minister has invited all the Front leaders for a dinner meeting on Sunday, which also happens to be her mentor Kanshi Ram's birth anniversary.

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Having made her prime ministerial ambitions clear, BSP chief Mayawati is likely to discuss the issue at her first meeting with the leaders of the newly floated Third Front on Sunday.
  
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who arrived on Saturday in the national capital, has invited all the Front leaders for a dinner meeting on Sunday, which also happens to be her mentor Kanshi Ram's birth anniversary.
       
Mayawati would also be unveiling a book on Kanshi Ram during one of her engagements here.
        
With Left leaders, who are a significant constituent of the Front, maintaining that their prime ministerial candidate would be finalised only after the polls, there is speculation that Mayawati may address the issue on Sunday.
 
BSP national general secretary SC Mishra while addressing the March 12 rally of the Third Front in Dobespet, Karnataka, had said that "it is the aim of BSP to make Mayawati the prime minister".
      
Even JD(S), which is a constituent of the Third Front, has said that Mayawati was acceptable to it as prime ministerial candidate, if others agree.

JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda had told reporters after the March 12 rally that "the Front will decide on the PM candidate when the right time comes." He, however, on being asked about Mayawati's chances said had that "we have no problems with her if others agree".
 
The meeting may also take up the Front's National Policy Document, which Gowda said is supposed to be finalised by this month end. The Third Front consists of four Left parties, JD(S), TDP, TRS, AIADMK, BSP and Haryana Janhit Congress.

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