Opposing Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday said that the move is not in the interest of the country.
"Our party is totally opposed to FDI in multi-brand retail," SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav told reporters outside Parliament House.
Asked whether his party will oppose it during the voting in Parliament, he said, "If the government convinces us on the FDI issue... we will see but we cannot vote in favour of FDI. We are very much against FDI and we think it is not in the interest of the country."
On the SP and Bahujan Samaj Party having the same stand on the FDI issue, Yadav parried the question,