JD(U) hopes for grand alliance in UP
New Delhi, Jan 1, 2017, DHNS:
Encouraged by developments in the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Janata Dal (United) expects a grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh polls with the SP as nucleus and the Congress and other anti-BJP parties as partners.
“With Akhilesh in command, the SP will certainly move towards a grand alliance of secular parties to win the Assembly polls,” a senior leader told DH.
JD(U) leaders revealed that the party was in touch with the Akhilesh camp during the crisis. “We offered all support to the chief minister after Mulayam Singh Yadav declared his expulsion,” a JD(U) source revealed.
Sources said that the party had even offered Akhilesh its election symbol for the upcoming Assembly elections with all freedom to choose candidates. However, Akhilesh is said to have expressed hope to hold on to the SP’s symbol—the bicycle.
JD(U) sources said that talks for a grand alliance will be intensified in the coming days and negotiations will be resumed. JD(U) leaders said that the party will not insist on many seats and help the SP in formalising the alliances in all possible ways.
In UP, the JD(U) is in alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh and has already started campaigning for elections. Senior party leader Sharad Yadav and Ajit Singh have addressed several meetings in western Uttar Pradesh where there is a sizeable population of the Jats.
“We are trying to revive the social alliance between the Jats and the Muslims,” a senior JD(U) leader told DH.
“With Akhilesh in command, the SP will certainly move towards a grand alliance of secular parties to win the Assembly polls,” a senior leader told DH.
JD(U) leaders revealed that the party was in touch with the Akhilesh camp during the crisis. “We offered all support to the chief minister after Mulayam Singh Yadav declared his expulsion,” a JD(U) source revealed.
Sources said that the party had even offered Akhilesh its election symbol for the upcoming Assembly elections with all freedom to choose candidates. However, Akhilesh is said to have expressed hope to hold on to the SP’s symbol—the bicycle.
JD(U) sources said that talks for a grand alliance will be intensified in the coming days and negotiations will be resumed. JD(U) leaders said that the party will not insist on many seats and help the SP in formalising the alliances in all possible ways.
In UP, the JD(U) is in alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh and has already started campaigning for elections. Senior party leader Sharad Yadav and Ajit Singh have addressed several meetings in western Uttar Pradesh where there is a sizeable population of the Jats.
“We are trying to revive the social alliance between the Jats and the Muslims,” a senior JD(U) leader told DH.
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