Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday attacked former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, calling him "a convict" in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
"He (Kalyan) is a convict in the demolition of the Babri Masjid. He is not a member of the SP. Is he a member of SP?" Lalu said, when his opinion was sought on the former UP CM's call to Muslims to defeat the BJP.
Just before the Lok Sabha polls, Kalyan had quit the BJP to join hands with his erstwhile bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav and has been campaigning for the latter's Samajwadi Party candidates in Uttar Pradesh.
Talking about the formation of the government at the Centre after the polls, Lalu said no single party would be able to form a government, and once again reached out to the Left, saying the door for them was always open.
"The era of coalition governments is here to stay for long and we want the Left and secular forces to come together. The door for the Left is always open," he told a press
conference in Patna.
Asked to comment on CPM leader Sitaram Yechury's statement that the Left was not averse to aligning with even the JD(U) after the polls, Lalu retorted, "Do you think that the Left will join forces with the communal parties? Nitish Kumar (Bihar chief minister) is sitting in the lap of communal BJP. The Left will never allow the communal forces to come to power."
On AICC general secretary Gulam Nabi Azad's statement that it was a "big mistake" on the part of the Congress to have aligned with regional parties in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Lalu said, "RJD is a national party and all should know that. The Congress virtually has no existence in the two states."
"The Congress should have tried to stand on its own legs in UP and Bihar much earlier. We apologise to the people for the big mistake. The party will not be left at the mercy of regional parties," Azad had said on Thursday.
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