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Lucknow, January 14
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Monday promised full support to the BSP-SP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, asserting that the move by the two regional parties to come together to fight the BJP has gone down well throughout the country.
Stating that the alliance will be hailed in the future, Tejashwi also said Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will decide who will come to power at the Centre after the General Election. “Our organisation in Uttar Pradesh will lend support to the alliance,” he told newspersons in Lucknow after meeting Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav. The RJD leader had met Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati in Lucknow Sunday night.
“It is not just UP but the entire country where the message of alliance has gone... (now) the people of UP and Bihar will decide as to who will come to power at the Centre.”
Akhilesh responded saying Tejashwi's offer of support will further cement the alliance. Both Tejashwi and Akhilesh also targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that people will oust the party from power.
“The people of the country are today unhappy with the BJP and want to remove it," Akhilesh said, adding the alliance in UP has been received well.
“...from Delhi to Kolkata, people are against the BJP as all have been deceived by them,” he said. “I can assure the BJP that we samajwadis will not change our language even if they try,” Akhilesh added.
To a question on the Congress being left out of the alliance in UP, Tejashwi, said, “The aim is same, to defeat the BJP... all saw how the SP and BSP gave a stern reply to the BJP in the recent bypolls (in UP). — PTI