Amid continuing uncertainty over a proposal to merge of the ‘Janata Parivar’, RJD chief Lalu Prasad today sought to break the ice with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying he was prepared for both-a merger between his party and the JD(U) or a broad-based secular alliance-to take on the BJP in the State Assembly elections.
Lalu said:”I am now saying that we should hurry up over a mega alliance. The JD(U) should talk to the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party also about its demands and wishes. If you want a merger between the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the JD(U) I am ready. Let us sit together today itself and finalise it”.
“All issues, including that of leadership and Chief Ministerial candidate will be sorted out once there is a finality about the alliance,” Lalu Prasad, a former Bihar Chief Minister, told reporters.
