Sharad Yadav, Lalu Yadav back together after decades: ‘Opposition unity…’

Former union minister Sharad Yadav on Sunday announced that he has merged his Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD, calling it the “first step in opposition unity”. “The merger of our party with the RJD is the first step towards opposition unity. It’s imperative that the whole opposition gets united across India to defeat the BJP. As of now, unification is our priority, it’ll be only after that we would think about who’ll lead the united opposition,” Sharad Yadav was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Earlier this week, he had said that he had been working for long to bring together the political parties having similar ideologies. This was also an attempt to revive his erstwhile Janata Dal, which he said, “was now in disarray”.