Laloo ready to push any 'secular' force to power
Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya
Janata Dal supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav has said his party is
prepared to extend unconditional support to any secular
formation, including the United Front, in forming a government at
the Centre.
He said the people's mandate, which clearly went to the secular forces and
not to the Bharatiya Janata Party, has to be honoured
at all cost.
The RJD supremo said if the Congress was
dithering, then the United Front should come forward and elect its leader
to whom 'we will offer unconditional support.'
He said the BJP and its allies neither have got the
people's mandate nor have the requisite strength. ''(Therefore) the
Congress has got all the legitimate right to form the
government,'' Yadav said.
Regarding the participation of his party in any such secular government, he said it would depend on who becomes the prime
minister.
In an oblique reference to Telugu Desam Party chief and UF convener Chandrababu Naidu's stand of maintaining equidistance from
both the Congress and the BJP, Yadav said history would not
forgive such people and they would be publicly exposed.
The nation's interest was foremost, it was over and above an
individual's, he said.
Yadav, who has started hectic consultations with leaders of
like-minded parties, would stay in Delhi till 'a government is formed'.
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