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DMK petitions President against Third Front

President K R Narayanan was today urged not to call on a Third Front to form the government as such experiments had always proved to be failures.

Senior BJP leader and External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Murasoli Maran and MDMK leader Vaiko told newsmen after meeting the President that third fronts were ''negativism of the worst kind and were the surest recipe of instability''.

They said the alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, having the support of 269 members was a time-tested alliance which had shown a functional coherence in the last 13 months.

They said they told the President that the government should be viable, based on programmes, and should not merely be the succession of one caretaker government by another.

While emphasising that they could not question the prerogative of the President, they said he had told them that he would complete the process 'shortly.' He also added that the it 'is not an open-ended process.'

UNI

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