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| 13 MLAs announce split from Lalu |
| 13 MLAs announce split from Lalu Prasad's RJD, five return within an hour
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| INDIA
, 24-February-2014
9:0:31 AM |
| Veteran politician Lalu Prasad took about an hour this evening to effect damage control and woo back into his Rashtriya Janata Dal five of 13 legislators who had announced earlier in the day that they were quitting.
The rebels, led by the RJD's chief whip in the Bihar assembly Rakesh Kumar had met Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary this afternoon and sought to be recognised as a separate group; the Speaker immediately declared them "unattached" from the RJD.
One of the rebel legislators, Javed Ansari, said the group would support the ruling Janata Dal (United). "Whatever we need to do to help Nitish we will, if we need to merge with his party, we will," Mr Ansari said.
But Lalu Prasad said, "I have heard about it. It's not true. I will find out." About an hour later, RJD leader Jaiprakash Yadav claimed that five of them had been won back. At his home, Lalu Prasad is talking to each legislator personally.
The rebel RJD legislators are said to be among those who want ticket for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, but believe that they might not get them as Lalu Prasad might offer these seats to the Congress a part of an expected pre-poll alliance.
The JD(U) is reportedly set to offer Lok Sabha ticket or important roles in the Bihar government to them. "The party has become a B-team of Congress, we don't feel like working with them," Mr Ansari said.
Mr Yadav has also had to deal today with speculation that his partner of many years, Ram Vilas Paswan of the LJP is said to be exploring rekindling his old ties with the BJP; he is reportedly worried that if the 40 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar have to be divided up between the Congress, RJD, Congress-ally Nationalist Congress Party and him, his party will get to contest very few. (Read)
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