The Janata Dal (U) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) formed a joint front ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh scheduled to be held early next year.
JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav and RLD president Ajit Singh announced their decision to contest the upcoming Assembly polls in an alliance here on Monday. The new alliance will put up its nominees at all 403 Assembly seats in the state.
Though leaders claimed that BS-4, an outfit formed by former BSP general secretary R K Chaudhary, would also be part of the alliance, it was not confirmed by the outfit.
Chaudhary was not present at the joint press conference addressed by Yadav and Ajit Singh.
Both Yadav and Ajit Singh blamed Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh
Yadav for thwarting efforts to form a Bihar-like “Mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) in Uttar Pradesh.
“We wanted such an alliance to defeat the communal forces,” Singh said.
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