RJD says in talks with TMC to fight Bengal polls together
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RJD principal common secretary Abdul Bari Siddiqui and nationwide common secretary Shyam Rajak are in Kolkata to hammer a tie-up with Mamata Banerjee’s celebration for the Bengal polls.
Bihar’s primary opposition celebration RJD is in talks with the Trinamool Congress to fight the upcoming West Bengal elections together, a senior RJD chief mentioned on Sunday.
RJD principal common secretary Abdul Bari Siddiqui and nationwide common secretary Shyam Rajak are in Kolkata to hammer a tie-up with Mamata Banerjee’s celebration for the Bengal polls.
“We will be meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday to fight Bengal elections together,” Mr. Rajak instructed PTI.
Mr. Siddiqui and Mr. Rajak are assembly celebration leaders in the state forward of the discussions with Banerjee.
RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwary mentioned over the telephone from Patna that the celebration is exploring the potential of contesting some seats on the Bengal-Bihar border.
He, nonetheless, didn’t give any numbers on which the celebration is planning to fight the state elections, probably in April-May.
Ms. Banerjee has a cordial relation with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and the celebration needs to strengthen her arms in the Bengal polls, Mr. Tiwary mentioned.
The major goal of the RJD is to cease the “communal” BJP from rising its affect in West Bengal and strengthen the secular forces beneath the management of the TMC chief, he added.
Though not a noticeable participant in Bengal politics, the RJD, which emerged as the most important celebration in the not too long ago concluded Bihar polls and enjoys appreciable assist among the many Muslims in addition to the Yadavs, is eyeing just a few seats on the inter-state border which have a sizeable variety of Hindi- talking voters.
RJD had an MLA in the Bengal meeting between 2006 and 2011 through the Left Front rule.
