As his supporters launched the loktantrik Janata Dal (lJD), former JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav on Friday said constitutional values faced a danger under the Modi Government like never before and asked the Opposition parties to work together to defeat it in the next lok Sabha polls.
Addressing party members on its Foundation Day, he claimed that Opposition parties will not get another chance if the BJP came back to power as it would further curb constitutional rights of the people.
Hitting out at the NDA Government at the Centre and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whom he accused of bringing “disgrace” to people of his State by “sitting in the lap” of the BJP, Yadav said the Modi dispensation has failed to fulfil key promises it had made and the ruling party now solely relied on “Hindu-Muslim” issues to come to power.
Yadav himself is not a member of the new party as he is fighting a court battle to claim the election symbol of Kumar-led JD(U) but is believed to be the key man behind its formation. Rajya Sabha member MP Veerendra Kumar proposed a social resolution on the occasion, Javed Raza, a close aide of Yadav said.
The resolution seeks to achieve the objective of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, socialism and secularism.
likening the BJP to a demon, whose life was in a bird, Yadav in his concluding address said the saffron party’s survival depended on communal issues. “Hindu-Muslim issues are the only reason for its wins in elections,” he said.