Lalu Prasad Yadav has offered Mayawati a Rajya Sabha seat from Bihar, a day after the Bahujan Samaj Party chief resigned in protest after she was 'not allowed to speak' in the House, reports India Today.


Lalu, who heads the Rashtriya Janata Dal, tweeted from his handle, @laluprasadrjd: "Spoke with Mayawati Ji in (sic) length. Offered & requested her to be Rajyasabha MP frm Bihar to fight against atrocities & divisive agenda of BJP."


Mayawati tendered a three-page resignation, accusing the ruling BJP and Rajya Sabha chair of not allowing her to raise the issue of Dalits in the Upper House. Her term will end in April next year and her party, with just 18 MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, is not in a position to send her back to Rajya Sabha.


Reacting to Mayawati's resignation, Lalu said yesterday, "If Mayawati wishes, we will send her to Rajya Sabha from Bihar," the RJD president whose party has 80 MLAs in 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly said. "We are with her," he said.


"Chanakya had said that an assembly (of people) where a person is not allowed to speak through the force of brute majority is no assembly," he added.


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