Sharad Yadav, who is ill, is the party’s boss. (File)
New Delhi:
Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) said on Sunday his boss Sharad Yadav would work to bring the opposition alliance to power in Bihar, as he rejected speculations that he would join JD (U) chairman and to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
In a statement, the LJD pledged to strive relentlessly to bring “more cohesion among secular forces” in the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar and other constituencies where by-elections have failed. yet been announced, and attacked the central government for its “anti-farmer policies”.
Voting for the Bihar Assembly elections will take place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7 in one of the largest elections in the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by the vote count on the 10th. November, the Election Commission announced.
Party bureau members held a meeting here where they also paid tribute to singer SP Balasubrahmanyam and former Union Minister Jaswant Singh. Mr. Yadav, who is ill, is the party boss.
The LJD in the statement claimed that there had been rumors that Yadav might join the JD (U) and dismissed them as “totally false and unfounded”.
With the country in “deep economic distress” and urban India hit hard by COVID-19, the LJD strongly condemns the government’s “anti-farmer policies” and sees them as a serious attack on the potential of the rural economy to put the country back in place. on track to progress, the statement said, in an apparent reference to the agricultural bills presented by the Center.
