Buzzy news undoubtedly. Physically weak leaders have come together after over thirty long decades. A big-time void is going to end. Both of them are an offshoot of yester years’ Janta Party. They are none other than Sharad Yadav and Lalu Yadav. Both were once rivals but the time has taken a big turn.
The LJD (Loktantrik Janata Dal) and RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) are now one after a merger. Its date was earlier fixed as was clear from Sharad Yadav’s Tweet in this regard. What has led them to unite? Was it their political weakness or some other serious motivations?
“This merger has been caused as an option of my regular efforts for bringing together scattered Janta parivar in view of the current political situation in the country,” Sharad Yadav said in a statement. His intent may be to make a few basic capacities that had faded onto the ground. Notwithstanding, a deft politician always notices and thinks about better possibilities.
LJD leader Sharad Yadav has even lost his Rajya Sabha seat as well as his bungalow in Delhi. So his position at this time appears to be more fragile politically. Will the merger comfort him in these difficult days?
It can be said that their political unity will surely settle them politically. The merger might be a prelude to the RJD nominating Sharad to the Rajya Sabha in the Upper House biennial polls slated for June. Though there is no official word so far from either camp in this regard, there has been a buzz in political circles about it.
When Sharad Yadav had left JDU he would have never visualised the circumstances that will lead to their unity. That’s why the very supposition that nothing remains definite in politics solidifies.
Sharad Yadav founded LJD in the year 2018 following his expulsion from the JDU. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar also got him disqualified from the Rajya Sabha. Back in the year 1990, Sharad Yadav had played a key role in the selection of Lalu Prasad as the CM through an internal party contest after the Bihar elections, when the then Prime Minister V P Singh backed the candidature of Ram Sunder Das.