New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi dialed Lalu Yadav on Tuesday in the midst of signs that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) pioneer considers his long-lasting partner an extra weight in Bihar, particularly with the drawing closer by-surveys turning into a flashpoint between the gatherings.
Lalu Yadav, getting back to Bihar governmental issues following three years in prison and medical clinics, held up a monster warning for the resistance partnership on Monday as he freely dissed a Congress chief and addressed how great the coalition hosted helped his get-together.
Both the RJD and the Congress are challenging the get together by-decisions to two seats – Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan – on Saturday. This has extended the fracture between the partners.
Lalu Yadav was found out if the RJD’s collusion with the Congress was finished. “Kya hota hai Congress ka gathbandhan (of what use is a collusion with the Congress),” snapped the previous Bihar Chief Minister.
Requested to remark on Congress pioneer Bhakt Charan Das saying the RJD was helping the BJP by walking out on the Congress, Lalu Yadav answered: “Would it be a good idea for us to have left behind a seat with the goal that the Congress lost it and relinquished its store? Bhakt Charan is a bhakchonhar (numbskull).”
However state Congress pioneers are enraged with the RJD pioneer, Sonia Gandhi needs to streamline things with one of the party’s most seasoned partners, say sources.
Sonia Gandhi and Lalu Yadav have consistently shared great ties; in 2004, when the Congress came to control, the RJD boss unequivocally upheld Sonia Gandhi for the post of Prime Minister amidst a chorale against an Italy-conceived PM.
Lalu Yadav’s brazen fretfulness with his partner mirrors the strain that set in last year when the Congress’ bleak presentation apparently dragged down the resistance coalition notwithstanding the RJD scoring the most seats in the Bihar political race.
With the resistance Mahagatbandhan missing the mark concerning a greater part, the BJP and Nitish Kumar got back to control. In post-mortems many partners accused the Congress, which won just 19 of 40 seats in its portion.
Essentially, Sonia Gandhi called Lalu Yadav before long a gathering of the Congress’ state bosses, in which the party’s concerns in different states was allegedly talked about frayed.
In the Congress meet, Sonia Gandhi encouraged her party chiefs to zero in on discipline and solidarity “superseding individual desires”. She likewise remarked on what she called “an absence of clearness and attachment” among state level pioneers.
