Tejashwi won't resign, grand alliance is intact: Lalu

July 14, 2017 22:42

Reiterating his party's stand, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today said that deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav will not resign and mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) is intact in Bihar.

"The grand alliance is intact in Bihar," he said after holding nearly three hours long meeting with senior party leaders and MLAs at his official residence in Patna.

Lalu also said that there is no difference between him and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre has been using I-T, ED and CBI to destabilise the grand alliance government in Bihar.

But he said that he and his party will not do anything to provide any space to RSS and BJP to put its step in Bihar.

After returning from Ranchi on Friday, Lalu hold meeting with RJD leaders in view of media reports that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has intervened to save the grand alliance government led by Nitish Kumar.

"TV channels are running baseless news that Sonia Gandhi had spoken with me. We had no discussion on the grand alliance," he said.

Lalu said he don't know whether Sonia had spoken with Nitish Kumar.

MI Khan/Rediff.com

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