New Delhi: Lalu Yadav, chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) met with former Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav within the presence of the latter’s son and therefore the current and party chief, Akhilesh Yadav. Sources say the meeting happened in New Delhi on Monday.
Photographs of the meeting were shared from the Twitter handles of both Akhilesh Yadav and Lalu Yadav.
In a tweet in Hindi, Lalu Yadav said, “Met the country’s senior most socialist friend Shri Mulayam Singhji and enquired about his wellbeing. we’ve common concerns and fight about farmers, inequality, the poor and therefore the unemployed.”
While the three leaders who met haven’t spoken about the agenda of the meeting, the timing is being seen as significant as long as the all-important Uttar Pradesh assembly polls are due during a few months.
“Mulayam Singh-ji had been unwell. Lalu Yadav visited to enquire about his health. it’s natural that when two senior politicians of the country meet, politics are going to be discussed,” Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav told NDTV.
Lalu Yadav was granted bail in cases linked to the Bihar fodder scam by the Jharkhand supreme court earlier this year. The cases had kept him in prison for 3 years.
Akhilesh Yadav has repeatedly said that he doesn’t want an alliance with bigger parties in Uttar Pradesh , like Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) or the Congress. Sources say the Congress though, does want some quite an understanding with the Samajwadi Party. Their last alliance, for the 2017 assembly polls, led to disaster with the BJP sweeping that election.
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