New Delhi: Ahead of UPA's meeting on Friday evening, talks between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) gained momentum over the possibility of Mulayam Singh Yadav's support to the ruling dispensation candidate for the Presidential poll.
Sources in the Samajwadi Party said that Yadav, his cousin and party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav and another senior leader Naresh Aggarwal have held at least five rounds of discussion with the Congress leaders.
While Yadav and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had floated the names of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former speaker Somnath Chatterjee, former president APJ Abdul Kalam as their presidential candidate, the SP chief on Thursday night refused to declare Kalam as his preferred candidate.
He is understood to have told Mamata that any final decision on a single name has to be endorsed by other the SP leaders.
Meanwhile, Aggarwal and Ram Gopal Yadav met Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday morning amid indications that the SP chief could leave for Agra on Friday.
The UPA meeting on Friday is expected to formally endorse the name of Pranab Mukherjee as the alliance candidate.
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