Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, HD Deve Gowda, Sharad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav at the Janata Parivar meeting at Mulayam's residence in New Delhi on Dec 3rd 2014. (Source: Express photo by Ravi Kanojia)In a move aimed at consolidation of opposition forces, six constituents of the erstwhile ‘Janata Parivar’ will soon become one party as their leaders on Thursday authorised Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to work out the “modalities” in that direction.
In their first joint action outside Parliament, SP, Janata Dal (Secular), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party will hold a ‘dharna’ on December 22 against government’s “failure” to bring back black money stashed abroad, its alleged U-turn on farmers’ issue and rising unemployment.
The leaders of the six parties today “authorised” Mulayam at a meeting at his official residence to “work out modalities” for becoming one party through a merger, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar told reporters.
Seeking to dispel any ambiguity as to the proposed merger, Kumar said that all of them felt there should be “one party” as they have the same philosophy and principles.
Asked whether the move to join forces was borne of a ‘fear of Narendra Modi’, Kumar said it that not the case but the aim was to form a platform in the current political atmosphere.
He said that the six parties would like to work in tandem with entities like the Left Front, which would be approached. Kumar did not, however, elaborate further.
This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.
from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/1ypvnGb
via IFTTT
0 comments:
Post a Comment