JD(U) President Sharad Yadav has, however, been making his opposition to an alliance with Congress more than clear and on October 30, this year, both Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had addressed a “convention against communalism,” a gathering of non-Congress, non-BJP parties, thereby indicating that it was maintaining equi-distance from both parties.
After the debacle of Congress in recent assembly polls in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, there were indications that Kumar had developed cold feet over aligning with Congress, a scenario which appears to have pushed Congress and RJD closer to each other.
The RJD chief was the first leader to have rooted for Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister when the issue of her foreign origin had created a major controversy.
Prasad, who had stopped the Ayodhya rath yatra and arrested L K Advani, has been mocking at Kumar's secular credentials and maintaining that it will be his party RJD and not JD(U), which will halt Narendra Modi's march in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Bihar Congress chief Chowdhary said that he had briefed both the Congress President and the Vice President about the political situation in the state.
He, however, remained non-committal on whether there is a clear signal from the top leadership of the party to align with RJD.
(With PTI inputs)
