Patna : The grand alliance against the BJP in Bihar for the coming assembly elections seems to have disintegrated as the Samajwadi Party has declined to join the Sunday’s Swabhiman rally organised by the RJD and the JDU at Gandhi Maidan here. Neither SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav nor his representative would attend the rally as Congress president Sonia Gandhi is coming to participate.
State Samajwadi Party president Ramchandra Singh Yadav said here on Saturday morning that Mulayam has refused to join platform with Sonia Gandhi. He said it was Mulayam who had floated and arranged the grand alliance covering both Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, but the two leaders from Bihar betrayed Mulayam.
“Under the agreement, there was no space for Congress in the grand alliance”, but Lalu and Nitish decided to include Congress and NCP too, he regretted.
Earlier in the day, Lalu said he was allotting two more seats to Samajwadi Party from RJD quota of 100 seats for the assembly elections,.SP was given three seats earlier.like NCP which too was allowed three seats.NCP general secretary and MP from Katihar Tariq Anwar has announced NCP was out of grand alliance due to unfair treatment and said his party would form an alliance with secular and non-casteist parties,including the three left parties in the assembly elections.
Haryana”s ILD and Janata Dal(S) of H D Deve Gowda who were also part of the alliance have come out of the umbrella alleging it was an organisation of Lalu and Nitish only. Sonia Gandhi would reach here on Sunday morning along with leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and party general secretary in-charge of BIhar, CP Joshi.
About one lakh workers of the three parties -Congress, RJD and JDU have already reached here to attend the rally tomorrow amid strict security arrangement..
Chhaya Mishra
