The fragile third front, a combination of sulking parties led by the Samajwadi Party, broke on Thursday with the NCP announcing to break away from it. The third front named as Samajwadi Secular Front had six parties including Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Pappu Yadav’s Jana Adhikar Party.
NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar MP on Thursday announced that his party has decided to dissociate itself from the front. He said his party totally disagrees with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who during his Bihar visit a few days back, had given lead to BJP saying there was a wave in favour of the BJP.
“By stating this, Mulayam directly or indirectly supported BJP, which is totally unacceptable to NCP,” said Anwar, who had been indirectly projected as CM face of the front. The front is contesting all seats. Anwar said NCP now would contest on its own on some seats.
Mulayam’s statement came as a shocker for the NCP if not for Pappu Yadav’s party. Under the agreement, Samajwadi Party is contesting more seats than other parties in the front. Apart from Mulayam, his son and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav also addressed a few meetings in Bihar particularly in the regions having common border with UP. NCP is concentrating on the seats in Seemanchal, which will go to polls in the fifth and last phase on November 5.
Earlier, NCP was part of the Maha Gathbandhan but it quit the alliance after the party was given only three seats by lalu Prasad and Nitish. Anwar had alleged that NCP was not taken into confidence before finalisation of the seats.