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IFDP parliamentary party leader P C Thomas, who attended Friday's NDA meeting, said the party had decided to join the alliance to strengthen the government at a time when the country was facing several problems.
The NDA will stand together and make efforts to foster secularism and find a solution to the communal problems propped up by the Ayodhya issue, he said.
Pappu Yadav, Mohan Delkar, Anwarul Haque and Sukhdev Paswan are the other members of the newly formed party. Haque and Paswan are members of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (Democratic) while Thomas, Yadav and Delkar are independents.
Thomas said his party had not decided whether to support the Prevention of Terrorism Bill in the joint session of Parliament on March 26.
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