File Photo: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav with Lalu Prasad in Saifai
RJD chief Lalu Prasad's son in-law Tej Pratap Singh Yadav will campaign for Samajwadi Party (SP) in the Bihar Assembly elections, a SP leader said today.
Mr Yadav, the SP MP from Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, will come to Bihar during Assembly polls and campaign for his party's candidates, Bihar unit SP president Ramchandra Singh Yadav told reporters.
"Politics and familial relations are separate things... Tej Pratap Singh Yadav is a SP leader first and a relative or son in-law of anybody later," he said.
It may be mentioned that Mr Yadav, a third generation politician from the SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's family, was married to RJD chief Lalu Prasad's youngest daughter Raj Laxmi at a high-profile function in Delhi earlier this year.
However, the bonhomie between the RJD leader and the SP chief did not last for long as the latter left the 'Grand Alliance' in Bihar earlier this month in protest against the number of seats alloted to the SP.
The SP went on to form a third front with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Nationalist People's Party (NPP) of former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma, Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party, Samajwadi Janata Party (SJP) of former Union minister Devendra Singh Yadav and Samras Samaj Party of another former Union minister Nagmani.
As per the seat-sharing arrangement among the third front constituents finalised two days ago, SP bagged 85 out of the total 243 Assembly seats in Bihar.
Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party was alloted 64 seats followed by the NCP (40), Samras Samaj Party (28), SJP (23) and NPP (3).