Monday, January 14th, 2019
Tejashwi Yadav backs SP-BSP alliance, signals RJD will stay with Congress in Bihar
Two days after the BSP’s Mayawati and the SP’s Akhilesh Yadav unveiled their tie-up for the 2019 general election, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, son of party founder Lalu Prasad, welcomed the tie-up. He did not say whether the RJD would join it, but indicated that his party would stay with the Congress in Bihar. Visit to Lucknow Tejashwi said he felt compelled to travel from Patna to Lucknow to congratulate the Uttar Pradesh leaders. Asked about the Congress in Bihar, given that the SP-BSP combine had left itRead More
How Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav overcame differences before their UP alliance
Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, once bitter rivals, worked through a crisis that threatened their partnership soon after the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections in March last year. They kept their distance from each other’s opponents and from the Congress, and decided months in advance to take on the BJP together in the 2019 general election. On Saturday they announced that their parties would contest 38 seats each in Uttar Pradesh. The early rift After the Samajwadi Party won Gorakhpur and Phulpur with the support of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party,Read More