After their meeting, Sharad Yadav told media that the grand alliance is still on and seat sharing will be discussed later.
After a brief meeting between Samajwadi Party and JD(U), all is reportedly well between the Janata Parivar parties. On Thursday morning, SP, led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, had announced exit from the grand alliance saying it felt "humiliated" at being allotted a paltry five seats and deciding to contest the elections on its own.
After their meeting, Sharad Yadav told media that the grand alliance is still on and seat sharing will be discussed later.
"We talked about the state of affairs of nation and also talked about the upcoming Bihar polls. We will talk about the issue of seat sharing later. Grand alliance will remain as it was before today," said Sharad Yadav on Thursday evening.
"In Bihar the party will contest separately. The bigger parties in the alliance did not consult us while declaring seats due to which the SP felt humiliated. This is not the 'gathbandhan dharma'," SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav had said on Thursday morning.
Speaking to ANI, RJD Chief Lalu Prasad said that if Mulayam Singh is upset, we will try to make things right.
"Mulayam ji is our guardian, more than that he is our relative, he must have been upset due to some reasons. If Mulayam ji is upset about something, we will definitely try to make things right. We all need to together fight against the poison of communalism in the nation," said Lalu.
SP is the second party after Sharad Pawar's NCP to have quit the alliance over allocation of a handful of seats to them by the major players in the coalition.
Under the arrangement initially announced by Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad recently, JD(U) and RJD were to contest 100 seats each and Congress 40, leaving the rest three in the 243-member assembly for NCP. Dissatisfied, NCP walked out.
Though Samajwadi Party has been a marginal player in Bihar politics, its presence in the alliance would have led to greater consolidation of secular votes. It had fielded 146 candidates in the last elections and garnered 0.55 per cent of total votes polled.
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