We’re not different, aim is to remove BJP: Tejashwi
Hints RJD may not dump Cong in Bihar for 2019
Contradictions between opposition parties won't be allowed to hamper the fight against the saffron party in the Lok Sabha elections as "the aim is same, to remove the BJP", RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav stressed on Monday, seeking to downplay the Congress' exclusion from the BSPSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday announced their alliance in Uttar Pradesh, sharing 38 seats each and leaving two seats for smaller parties. They also left Rae Bareli and Amethi seats for UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi respectively.
To a question on the Congress being left out of the alliance in UP, the RJD leader, whose party is in alliance with the grand old party in Bihar, said, "The aim is same, to defeat the BJP... all saw how the SP and BSP gave a stern reply to the BJP in the recent bypolls (in UP). The result is before everyone."
"We are not different... they win here, we win there, it is the same thing," Tejashwi Yadav, who also met Mayawati on Sunday, said.
Stressing the message of BSP-SP alliance has gone down well throughout the country, Tejashwi Yadav said Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will decide who will be in power at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls.
"It is not just UP but the entire country where the message of alliance has gone...(now) the people of UP and Bihar will decide as to who will come to power at the Centre," Tejashwi told newspersons here after meeting SP president Akhilesh Yadav.