Bihar Rajya Sabha bypoll today; RJD to support JD-U

June 19, 2014 08:38

An election to Bihar's two Rajya Sabha seats will be held on Thursday.

On the appeal of former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav extended his party's support to the ruling JD-U's two candidates in the Rajya Sabha by-election to defeat BJP's game plan.

Lalu Prasad said the RJD decided to support JD-U to forestall any chance to communal forces to play their dirty politics.

It was probably the first time in two decades that Nitish Kumar has publicly admitted that he sought support from the RJD chief after he and Lalu Prasad parted ways in 1994.

Lalu Prasad's decision to support JD-U is seen here as the first step for a likely realignment of RJD-JD-U to take on a surging Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, despite reservations expressed by some RJD legislators and senior leaders like Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.

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