Bihar Polls 2015 : NCP’s exit from the third front in Bihar makes SP see red

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Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav

Fresh reports have now emerged as to why the NCP decided to walk out of the Grand alliance in Bihar just ahead of the polls. According to media reports , the Samajwadi Party has now accused the NCP of hatching a ‘conspiracy’ on behalf of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and RJD supremo  Lalu Yadav after the Sharad Pawar-led party decided to walk out of the third front in Bihar. “NCP leader Tariq Anwar severed ties with the third front as part of a conspiracy hatched on gesture from Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav,” SP national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda told reporters recently.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which was part of the grand alliance had  surprisingly announced that it was quitting the grouping citing “pro-BJP statements” by the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Nanda, accompanied by Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, leader of Pappu Yadav’s Janadhikar Party, a constituent of third front, alleged that Anwar had been with Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar in the grand secular alliance earlier.

Coming down heavily on the NCP for pointing accusing fingers at SP chief, Nanda said, “Our leader Mulayam Singh Yadav does not need to take a certificate of secularism from anybody.”

“The people of the country knows that Mulayam Singh Yadav never indulged in politics of religion and caste. Our fight is against BJP which is playing a dangerous game in the name of caste and religion,” the SP Vice President, who is also in-charge of party affairs in Bihar, said.

He came down heavily on NCP general secretary and MP Tariq Anwar, saying “he had come to join the third front and we had not invited him.” Rubbishing Anwar’s comment that the decision was in reaction to Mulayam’s purported comment that there was a wave in favour of the BJP and that the saffron party would form the government in the coming days in Bihar, Nanda said,”There is no wave in favour of BJP in Bihar. Our leader Mulayam Singh Yadav never asked anybody to vote for BJP.”

Janadhikar Party campaign committee chief Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha also came down heavily on Anwar and called him a “betrayer.” SP, NCP, Janadhikar Party of Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav, Samajwadi Janata Party of former Union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav, National Peoples Party of former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma and Samras Samaj Party of former Union minister Nagmani had come together to form a third front to face the Assembly election.

 

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