UP, Bihar hold key to next govt: Tejashwi
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday promised full support to the BSP-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, asserting that the move by the two regional parties to come together to fight the BJP has gone down well throughout the country.
Stating that the alliance will be hailed in the future, Tejashwi also said Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will decide who will come to power at the Centre after the general elections.
“Our organisation in Uttar Pradesh will lend support to the alliance,” he told newspersons in Lucknow after meeting Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav.
The RJD leader had met Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati in Lucknow on Sunday night.
“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,” Akhilesh responded saying Tejashwi’s offer of support will further cement the alliance.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday promised full support to the BSP-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, asserting that the move by the two regional parties to come together to fight the BJP has gone down well throughout the country.
Both Tejashwi and Akhilesh also targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that people will oust the party from power.
“The people of the country are today unhappy with the BJP and want to remove it,” Akhilesh said, adding the alliance in UP has been received well. “...from Delhi to Kolkata, people are against the BJP as all have been deceived by them,” he said.
“I can assure the BJP that we samajwadis will not change our language even if they try,” Akhilesh added.
Tejashwi hoped that the alliance formed in Uttar Pradesh will be extended to Bihar and that all parties will work together to defeat the BJP.
To a question on the Congress being left out of the alliance in UP, Tejashwi, whose party is in alliance with the Rahul Gandhi-led 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.”
Claiming that people are not happy with the BJP, Tejashwi said they had also come to “cheat” Bihar, with the prime minister promising special package.
He also referred to “CM chacha” (Nitesh Kumar) going with the BJP after breaking the alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Tejashwi’s support for the BSP-SP alliance drew snide remarks from the ruling NDA in Bihar with BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand wondering whether it was part of “strong arm tactics” against the Congress, its ally in the mahagathbandhan.