Mulayam breaks alliance with Laloo

Jisne Congress ko chhua uska nash hua hai… Jiska BJP ya Congress ke saath gathbandhan hai woh hamare saath nahin ho sakta (those who joined hands with the Congress have ultimately perished… Such parties having understanding with Congress or BJP can’t be with us), Yadav told newsmen replying to a volley of questions on his party’s relations with the RJD.

Stating that the RLM had become `irrelevant’ after the RJD decided to align with the Congress, Singh said his party had declared to maintain `equi-distance’ from BJP and Congress and described the two parties as "two faces of the same coin."

Meanwhile RJD president, Laloo Prasad Yadav said if the RLM president had described the front as "defunct and irrelevant" he had nothing to comment on that.

"More so, Sankersingh Vaghela’s Rashtriya Janata Party which was also a constituent of RLM had already merged with the Congress,” Laloo Yadav said adding third front did not exist ever since the Telugu Desam Party, and DMK and others pulled out of it.

Referring to Mulayam’s charge against RJD for aligning with the Congress, Laloo Yadav told newsmen his party had "only an electoral understanding with the Congress."

"I too have fought against the Congress in past… And my ideology is not guided by the Congress,” Laloo Yadav said reminding that he had made a debut in Lok Sabha in 1977 after defeating a Congress candidate in Chapra.

Yadav said his party would continue its fight with full strength for the cause of social justice and secularism.

Earlier, Mulayam said he would accord top priority to expand his party’s base in Bihar for contesting the Assembly poll due in March next year.

Yadav claimed that people of Bihar, particularly minorities, were now looking towards Samajwadi Party which alone was "strong enough" to be an alternative to the BJP in Bihar.