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Maya to play host to Third Front netas
Last Updated: March 13, 2009 23:25 IST
Uttar Pradesh [Images] Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati [Images] appears to be in a hurry to don the prime minister's mantle.
And with the Third Front alone affording her the opportunity, she is all set to ask for her pound of flesh at a dinner she proposes to host for all leaders of the front in New Delhi [Images] on Sunday.
No sooner than she made up her mind to throw the dinner, Mayawati rushed her trusted lieutenant and the party's Brahmin mascot Satish Chandra Misra by a special aircraft to New Delhi.
Besides telling him to personally supervise the arrangements for the grand feast to be laid out at BSP's central poll campaign office at Gurudrawa Rakabganj Road, Mayawati is understood to have also urged Misra to personally extend the dinner invitation to each of the honoured guests.
Misra had already met each of the Third Front leaders at Tumkur on Thursday, when he made it loud and clear to all of them that BSP's agenda was to see Mayawati as the country's prime minister.
However, instead of publicly raising the demand herself, Mayawati was keen to have the Third Front itself project her as its official prime ministerial nominee.
While Mayawati has always nurtured dreams of getting on to the highest slot, it was Prakash Karat who had first mooted the idea of showcasing Mayawati as the future prime minister, when it came to seeking her support for voting in the parliament against the nuclear deal.
However, barely a few weeks later, other members of the third front had expressed their reservations against the proposal.
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