RJD not to give tickets to candidates with criminal background

RJD will not field candiadtes with criminal backgrounds in the coming assembly polls in Bihar, its national spokesman Ram Kripal Yadav said today.

"RJD has taken a principled decision. There is no place for 'bahubalis' in the party," he told newspersons in Patna.

The party, he said, had already received 4000 applications for tickets for the assembly polls and the prospective candidates would be identified at RJD's parliamentary board meeting on September 7.

The decision on the candidates will be taken later by the party leadership, he said.

Yadav slammed the NDA government's performance in Bihar and said the return of the RJD-LJP alliance was certain as the electorate wanted to vote out the 'incompetent' and 'corrupt' regime headed by chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Meanwhile, JD(U) leader Sajjan Mishra joined RJD along with his supporters.