New Delhi: Bihar’s ruling party JD(U) and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD on Sunday decided to form an alliance to take on the BJP-led NDA in the coming Assembly elections in the state.
A six-member committee has been finalised to look into the seat-sharing issue, which had kept both the JD(U) and the RJD from announcing the alliance till now. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar earlier held a meeting with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress has already indicated that it will support Mr Kumar. Samajwadi supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is said to have brokered the deal between Mr Kumar and Mr Yadav.
“It has been decided in today’s meeting that a committee of three members each from the RJD and the JD(U) will decide seat-sharing and the leaders of both the parties will give a final shape to it. It has been decided now that both the parties will fight the election in Bihar in an alliance,” SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said.
Mr Kumar and the RJD supremo held a two-hour-long meeting at the SP chief’s New Delhi residence. However, not declaring Mr Kumar as the CM candidate of the alliance indicates that differences still continue between the two leaders.
