{"id":312435,"date":"2019-05-18T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312435"},"modified":"2019-05-18T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T17:31:42","slug":"chandrababu-naidu-meets-mayawati-akhilesh-step-up-talks-to-form-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chandrababu-naidu-meets-mayawati-akhilesh-step-up-talks-to-form-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandrababu Naidu meets Mayawati, Akhilesh; step up talks to form coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-696x562.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01-520x420.jpg 520w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225325__01.jpg 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister today specially called on Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Chief Akhilesh Yadav to explore their minds for the formation of non-BJP government at the central.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-696x488.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-1068x750.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01-598x420.jpg 598w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_20190518-225346__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sources close to UP leaders belive that the endeavour of Naidu is to bring Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav under the umbrella of UPA to defeat BJP plans to stake claim to form government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">SP-BSP alliance fought Lok Sabha election with a public pasture of keeping equidistance with BJP and Congress. The campaign saw their soft approach towards Congress than BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very harsh and personal in his targeted attack on Mayawati, Mulayam and Akhilesh. His remarks were below the belt hurting their sentiments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Mayawati openly criticised Election Commission for its soft approach towards Modi and Amit Shah and the way they tackled West Bengal confrontation between Modi and Mamata Banerjee. She tried to create a bridge of goodwill just ahead of final outcome of general election where both of them have posed for primeministerial candidate against BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">BJP has targeted both Mamata and Mayawati for alleged corruption cases in Sharda Chit fund and sale of government Sugar Mills to private parties in UP just at the throughway prices causing loss to state&#8217;s exchequer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">It will be interesting to see how these lady politicians play their game in balancing the power equations to their fold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Uttar Pradesh and West Bangal collectively send 122 law makers to Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister today specially called on Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Chief Akhilesh Yadav to explore their minds for the formation of non-BJP government at the central. Sources close to UP leaders belive that the endeavour of Naidu is to bring Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav under the umbrella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":312436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312438,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312435\/revisions\/312438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}