RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD-U chief Sharad Yadav today met Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav in New Delhi to mollify him, a day after SP announced quitting the anti-BJP alliance in Bihar, saying it felt "humiliated" after not being consulted for seat sharing.


Getting into damage control Prasad, whose daughter is married to the SP chief's son, rushed to the national capital from Patna and called on the SP chief at his residence where he was joined in by JD-U President Sharad Yadav to discuss ways to salvage the alliance.


While there was no word from the SP today a day after it held a press conference in Lucknow to announce the break-up over being offered only five seats in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, the JD-U President put up a brave face saying "everything will be settled".


He will also be visiting Patna to discuss the issue with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The JD-U chief had half-an-hour long meeting with Mulayam last night after which he had claimed that the alliance will remain intact like it was before in Bihar with Samajwadi Party being a part of it.