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Mulayam pulls out from grand alliance, to go alone in Bihar polls

by IBNS 02 Sep 2015, 11:27 pm

Lucknow, Sep 3 (IBNS) Announcing pull out from the anti-BJP grand alliance, Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday declared that his Samajwadi Party will fight the Bihar election alone.

The SP chief's announcement came as a big jolt for the alliance, now left only with  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal(U), Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress.

The parties had combined in an attempt to resist the BJP, whose campaign is being led by the Prime Minister, from winning the state assembly election, the dates for which are to be announced shortly.

Giving reasons for his decision, Mulayam Singh Yadav said he had not been consulted about how seats for the election were being divided among the allies. 

 His party has neither any state legislators, nor parliamentarians from Bihar. 

In the  first show of strength of the grand alliance in Patna on Sunday, Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi addressed a large rally. Mulayam Singh deputed Shivpal Yadav as his party's representative.