SP cycles away from grand alliance, to contest all seats
8 Sept 2015 6:07 AM IST
Announcing this here, Bihar Samajwadi Party president Ramchandra Singh Yadav said the party will contest all 243 seats alone in the upcoming polls.
“SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, listening to sentiments of workers, went by the decision of the party’s Parliamentary Board to end ties with secular alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress, and contest alone in Bihar,” Yadav told reporters after a meeting of party districts chief here.
He said that with SP walking out, the grand secular alliance in Bihar has virtually come to an end.
“Now it will only be ‘lathbandhan’ (clash of lathis) between JD(U) and RJD,” Yadav said.
Yadav was not very categorical about chances of tie-up with Left Parties and Sharad Pawar-led NCP.
“There have been some talks with leaders of the two but no conclusive decision has yet been taken,” he said.
Slamming the grand alliance and coming down heavily on the Bihar chief minister, he said, “SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav ignored all odds against Kumar and played a pivotal role in declaring his name as secular alliance’s candidate for chief minister’s post ... Till the name was declared, Kumar used to chant ‘Mulayam chalisa’. The feelings of the SP workers wee hurt after he started with ‘Congress and Sonia chalisa’,” Yadav said. SP’s change of mind follows its participation in the ‘Swabhiman Rally’ on August 30, which was addressed among others by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The state SP chief did not speak much against RJD and its leader Lalu Prasad. However, he spoke about ‘kushashan’ (misgovernance) in the name of ‘sushashan’ (good governance) under Nitish Kumar and chances of return of jungle raj in the state under the ‘grouping.’ SP which was originally not given any seat to contest on August 11, was given five later - the three rejected by NCP and two from RJD’s quota. After this Mulayam Singh Yadav had sent his younger brother and Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Singh Yadav to the Swabhiman rally.
Six major Left parties join hands
Patna: Six major Left parties on Monday joined hands to contest the forthcoming Bihar Assembly elections and vowed to fight the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-RJD-Congress grand alliance. Asserting that they were starting an “agitation” for the state, which would “defeat feudal, communal and corporate forces”, the Left parties said they have come together to provide an option to the public to provide “people’s rule” in the true sense. The six Left parties which joined hands on Monday include the Communist Party of India (CPI), CPI(M), CPI(ML), Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI)(Communist), All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and were currently in the process of finalising the seat-sharing for the 243-member Assembly.
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