Akhilesh Yadav meets Chandrababu Naidu,talks third front

Uttar Pradesh chief minister is on a two-day visit to Hyderabad.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav,who is on a two-day visit to Hyderabad,met Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu to discuss the possibility of forming a third front. He also met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and a few others on Sunday.

The UP CM was here to address the All-India Yadav Mahasabha and was the chief guest at its national executive meeting.

Yadav said that he discussed political issues with Naidu and explored the possibility of forming a third front. Yadav,who praised TDP for allocating 100 seats for backward classes,said UP government is also doing the same.

The UP CM also met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to understand the over two dozen welfare schemes being implemented in the state. There was a skirmish between the security personnel and Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav and his supporters after the MP was left out of the convoy in which the UP CM was travelling. Police have registered a case against four supporters of Anjan Kumar Yadav for throwing stones at the convoy of the chief minister.