Rashtriya lok Dal (RlD) national vice-president Jayant Chaudhary has said that the RlD will play an active role in forming alliance of Opposition parties ranging against BJP in 2019 election while showering praise for BSP Chief Mayawati for her support to Samajwadi Part in by-election of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in which BJP contestants faced defeat. He also invoked the Dalit leader Kanshi Ram during his address to the newsmen.
He said Maywati’s initiative in forming of an alliance was a good move and it showed the BJP the exit doors in the recent election. “People in the State are feeling cheated and it was their anger against the BJP Government that reflected in the election. It is a mandate against the Centre Government and one year old BJP Government in the State,” he said.
Jayant told that RlD will continue its efforts to form an alliance to counter the BJP and it will to the side of the political parties which are against BJP while adding that the BSP support to SP in the recent election was not an alliance. “Right now we cannot term BSP’s support to SP as an alliance of two parties. It was in fact an experiment that yielded excellent results and I hope Opposition parties will come under one umbrella to fight with BJP. An alliance should not be something like marriage of conveniences of political parties,” he explained in a philosophic way.