LALU'S VOTE TO BE SPLIT BY HIS FORMER AIDE
From Our Delhi Bureau
NEW DELHI: In yet another setback to Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), his former trusted aide and former union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav on Wednesday announced to field 100 candidates in the Bihar Assembly elections under the banner of Janata Dal(Secular).
The announcement came after he merged the Socialist Janata Dal (Democratic) that he had floated last month quitting the RJD into the Janata Dal(S) in Patna on Tuesday and its president H D Deve Gowda, a former prime minister, appointed him as a national vice-president of the party.
Lalu's worry is that Devendra, a 5-time MP, was closely associated with the RJD poll strategies and as such he would be able to divide his party's vote by aligning with Deve Gowda. Devendra has described the merger of his party into JD(S) as "homecoming," hailing JD(S) as his "parent party."
The RJD sources said the JD(S) that had no base in Bihar will not cut much ice by s
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