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NEW DELHI: Janata Dal (United) leader and National Democratic Alliance convenor George Fernandes on Friday said he would campaign for Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in the coming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh if his party chief Sharad Yadav insisted on his campaigning for the Apna Dal with which the JD (U) has forged an alliance. Mr. Fernandes spoke to reporters here after an hour-long meeting with Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani. A number of issues ranging from the corruption charges against Mr. Fernandes in connection with the Barak missile deal to his bonhomie with the SP were reportedly discussed in this meeting. Mr. Fernandes' own problems within the JD (U) have recently put a question mark on his position as NDA convenor, but the Bharatiya Janata Party insists that those were internal problems of its alliance partner with which it shares power in Bihar. As long as Mr. Fernandes continues in the JD (U), there was no question of asking him to resign his job as NDA convenor, senior BJP leaders said. However, the Barak deal charges levelled against Mr. Fernandes and some of his colleagues in the JD (U) have cast a shadow on the BJP-Fernandes relationship. The BJP has defended Mr. Fernandes but at the same time it has distanced itself from the former Samata Party treasurer R.K. Jain, charged with having received Rs. two crore for influencing a deal in favour of the Israeli Barak system. The political problem that could arise for the BJP as a result of the JD (U)'s internal problems is that in U.P. it would have to decide whether it can stomach Mr. Fernandes campaigning for Mr. Yadav when the party hoped to focus its own campaign on the lack of governance in U.P.under Mr. Yadav. But, on Friday, BJP leader Arun Jaitley described the meeting as "very satisfactory."
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