Mulayam Lunch

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  Samajwadi Party 'Cycle' Wars: Congress' Kapil Sibal Defends Akhilesh Yadav At Poll Office

  Congress leader and renowned lawyer Kapil Sibal told the Election Commission on Friday afternoon why the Samajwadi Party's cycle symbol must be allotted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and not his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, who launched the party 25 years ago. After a break for lunch, an equally heavy-weight legal team will argue be...

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  An Alliance Between Lalu Yadav and Mulayam Singh. This One's a Wedding

  Before they come together in a "Janata Parivar", politicians Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Yadav may end up in a different alliance - one involving a wedding.

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  Nitish Kumar Hints At 'One Single Party' After Meeting Mulayam, Lalu

  From a lunch meeting at Mulayam Singh Yadav's Delhi residence today, emerged not talk of a third front, but the hint that the "Janata parivar" could come together to form a party in the future.

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  Over Lunch, Mulayam, Lalu, Nitish Plan a Pressure Group

  Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today hosted leaders of several opposition parties at a lunch meeting at his Delhi home, among them Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar from Bihar.

• Prime Minister dines with BJP leaders tomorrow, UPA tonight

  The Prime Minister's dinner diplomacy as he preps for the winter session of Parliament will not end with his allies. Dr Manmohan Singh hopes to host top leaders of the main opposition party, the BJP, for either lunch or dinner tomorrow, sources have said.

• PM hosts Mayawati for lunch; Winter Session begins soon

  Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati is having lunch at the Prime Minister's 7 Race Course Road residence on Sunday, as Dr Manmohan Singh continues to reach out to allies. He had hosted Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for dinner on Friday.

• Mulayam, Mayawati attend Sonia's lunch, but where are Pawar and Praful?

  The seating arrangements at Sonia Gandhi's lunch today conferred VIP status on former Chief Minister Mayawati - she was placed at Mrs Gandhi's table. It's not often that Mayawati and her bete noire - Mulayam Singh Yadav - are seen within striking distance. But in a major coup, Mrs Gandhi's meal for the ruling coalition and its supporting partners s...

• At Sonia Gandhi's lunch, PM's table had Mulayam and Trinamool

  Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Presidential elections, President poll

• Jailed MLAs at Akhilesh Yadav's lunch for Pranab Mukherjee

  The UPA's candidate for President, Pranab Mukherjee, broke bread yesterday in Lucknow with not just the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party head Mulayam Singh Yadav. Present at the grand lunch, among the many politicians and hangers-on, were two MLAs who are in jail on criminal charges.

• APJ Abdul Kalam will contest, says Mamata Banerjee, but he is undecided, so is NDA

  APJ Abdul Kalam, who was hosted at lunch by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today, has said he will decide at the right time whether to contest Presidential elections for a second stint in the Rashtrapati Bhawan. And though Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee insists that he will contest, a lot of factors now seem to put a question mark on t...