Our Alliance is Intact, Will Speak to Mulayam: JDU Chief Sharad Yadav

New Delhi: Janata Dal-United (JDU) president Sharad Yadav today said that he will speak to the Samajwadi Party (SP) to reconsider their decision of walking out of the alliance in Bihar, where assembly elections are due in a few months.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief of SP has decided to leave the "grand alliance" formed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU, Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the Congress to counter the BJP led National Democratic Alliance.

"Our alliance is intact and will remain intact. I will soon talk to Mulayam Singh Yadav," Mr Yadav told reporters.

The ruling party in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, SP, had been offered five seats by the alliance in Bihar, after which the party said that it will contest the Bihar assembly elections on its own with their full might.

Mr Yadav said, "I just got to know through the media that the Samajwadi Party is not happy with the seat sharing. In a grand alliance such things happen. We will not allow him to walk out of the alliance. Their concerns will be addressed soon."

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Sharad Yadav refused to be drawn into the controversy, he said, "I am not going to respond to any of the accusations. We know the problem has come to our doorsteps and we know how to solve it. I have a lot of experiences in resolving such problems."

Under the seat sharing agreement, JDU and RJD will contest 100 seats, while the Congress has been given 40 seats. Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was offered the remaining three seats, but they had refused.

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"We have decided to give three seats earlier allotted to NCP and two others from the RJD quota to SP in the Bihar elections," Mr Prasad had told reporters last week when NCP walked out of the alliance.