Merger of Jata Parivar parties certain'

Pat, April 5: Putting an end to unending speculation, RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday announced that the merger of the six parties of the erstwhile Jata Parivar would happen soon. “Vilay ho tai hai (merger is certain),” he said in his initial address at the party’s tiol executive meeting here. Terming the merger the right way to defeat the “commul” BJP in Bihar and across the country, he said: “There is no chance of the formation of any front or alliance. Merger is the best option. There is no if and but... We will merge.”

Lalu Prasad said that after the six parties including his Rashtriya Jata Dal and Bihar’s ruling Jata Dal-United, merge, they would defeat the Bharatiya Jata Party in the Bihar assembly polls this year. He also made it clear that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will be the leader of the merged entity. Meanwhile, a resolution on merging the RJD with the other parties of the Jata Parivar was passed at the meeting. (IANS)