The BJP today dismissed a Third Front as irrelevant and asked Mulayam Singh Yadav, "If the Congress government bothers you so much, why don't you do something about it?" The party's Ravi Shankar Prasad said Mr Chidambaram's promise to UP today was a "lollipop". The government, Mr Prasad said, "is trying to bribe the Samajwadi Party".
