Sharad Pawar gives red signal to third front

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and chief of Nationalist Congress Party on Friday said he has no truce with any other coalition other than the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance. Pawar told reporters in Mumbai that his party had an electoral understanding with the BJD in Orissa, but that did not mean that his party was part of the Third Front which opposes the UPA. The communists spearheaded the rally at Bhubaneswar last week.