Lalu and Mulayam may join hands: Amar Singh

NEW DELHI: After giving a short shrift to Congress in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad are likely to come together, a senior SP leader said on Wednesday.

"There is likelihood of Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav coming together. We want Ram Vilas Paswan also to come on board," SP general secretary Amar Singh said.

Singh's remarks came close on the heels of a telephonic talk he had with Lalu Prasad who is reportedly unhappy over the Congress' putting up a host of candidates in his home turf of Bihar.

"The politics to finish Mulayam and Lalu from Hindi heartland by anybody is not going to be tolerated by the workers of the respective parties," Singh told reporters here.

The SP leader said with Lalu and Yadav coming together, "the entire secular brigade of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh as a chunk will remain together.

Lalu ji telephonically informed me this morning that even if SP decides to field candidates against RJD, he is going to campaign, as he has earlier said, in favour of Mulayam Singh ji".