After leaders attend rally, JD(U) allies with INLD

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an NDA constituent, has aligned with INLD in Haryana and nominated candidates from Kalianwali and Ambala City seats for the October 15 polls. The Assembly has 90 seats.

On September 5, JD(U) leaders had attended a rally organised by the INLD to mark the 100th birth anniversary of former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal in Jind. The JD(U) chief and Shivpal Yadav, brother of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, were present at the rally.

The move to bring JD(U) and INLD closer politically comes more than a week after Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party, headed former Union minister M P Veerendra Kumar, announced his party’s merger with JD(U). The JD(U) chief had then said that it had been done in view of the “new emerging situation” before the country and that the beginning was made from Bihar where it joined hands with Lalu Prasad’s RJD.

“We have understood that the political challenges, which have emerged recently, can be faced only when the old Janata Parivar comes together immediately, otherwise it will be too late,” Sharad Yadav said in a release.

Stressing that the coming together of the two parties is not confined to fighting the polls together, he said that INLD has given an assurance that JD(U) would be part of the government if the alliance wins the elections.

Yadav said that since Haryana is an immediate neighbour of Delhi, the message of unity should travel from the national capital to the entire country “to keep the dividing forces away from power”.

“My personal efforts are on to revive our relations with old party colleagues. I am sure our initiative to go together will work in favour of the JD(U)-INLD alliance in Haryana,” he said.