Lalu's anti-BJP rally: Is JDU planning to show Sharad Yadav the door?
Senior JDU leader and General Secretary, KC Tyagi said that Sharad Yadav will be ousted from party if he attends Lalu Yadav's rally on Sunday.
The Sunday rally of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav will perhaps be the D-Day for former National President of JDU and Rajya Sabha MP, Sharad Yadav who has shown signs of revolting against the party after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with RJD and Congress.
Sharad has declared that he will be attending the "Desh Bachao, Bhajpa Bhagao" rally organised by the RJD on Sunday which perhaps could be the trigger for Nitish to oust the rebel JDU leader.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today released a list of political leaders from various parties who have confirmed their participation in the rally. Apart from Uttar Pradesh's former CM Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Yadav's name also figures in the list.
Though Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi have decided to skip the rally, senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Dr CP Joshi will be in attendance.
Sharad has been publicly criticising Nitish Kumar's decision to break alliance with RJD and Congress and allying with BJP.
He has gone to the extent of saying that the decision taken by Nitish was wrong and that he was still part of the Mahagathbandhan. He accused the Bihar CM of insulting the mandate of people given to Mahagathbandhan in 2015 Assembly elections.
Sharad also approached the Election Commission staking claim to the party symbol "arrow".
The rebel JDU leader skipped the National Executive meeting on August 19 and held a parallel event in Patna titled "Jan Adaalat" where he announced that he was still with RJD and Congress and appealed the people to continue with the Mahagathbandhan.
Senior JDU leader and General Secretary, KC Tyagi has already announced that the party was tolerating the anti-party activities of Sharad Yadav but asserted that the senior leader would be ousted from the party if he attends Lalu's rally.
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