'Third Front' leaders to campaign for SP in Mumbai

In their first show of strength outside the Hindi heartland, 'Fourth Front' leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan will hold a series of ,on April 23 in support of Samajwadi Party candidates.

After campaigning in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, it will be for the first time that the leaders of the newly-created Fourth Front will participate in programmes outside the cow-belt.

They will hold road shows and address public meetings in the commercial capital of the country to woo the 18 lakh strong North Indian votebank.

North Indians in Maharashtra have been constantly facing the wrath of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, RJD president Lalu Prasad and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan will hold three road shows in Mumbai South, Mumbai North and Mumbai North-West parliamentary constituencies, party sources said here.

SP general secretary Amar Singh, newly-appointed national general secretary and actor Sanjay Dutt, Bhojpuri singer and actor Manoj Tiwari, who is also SP's candidate from Gorakhpur (UP) and Rajya Sabha member Jaya Bachchan will also be present during the road shows.