JDU to fight Gujarat polls alone, Nitish Kumar likely to campaign
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- Monday, 10 September 2012 15:21
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
The Janata Dal (United) has declared that it will fight the Gujarat Elections alone. JDU Chief Sharad Yadav said that the party will not form an alliance with the BJP in the state.
During an interaction with the media, Yadav said that his party would contest alone in the Gujarat assembly polls scheduled to be held at the end of this year as his party never had an alliance with the BJP in Gujarat.
"We have an alliance in Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Karnataka. We earlier had an alliance in Uttar Pradesh. We never had an alliance in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat," he said.
Sources from the JDU have also revealed that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is likely to campaign in the run-up to the Gujarat assembly elections for his party, the Janata Dal (United). The Gujarat unit of the JD (U) plans to contest around 80 seats out of the 182 in the forthcoming assembly elections.
Nitish Kumar and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi are not known to be the best of friends. Both of them see themselves as the prime contender’s for the NDA’s PM contestant’s post.
At many occasions, Nitish Kumar has hinted that the JDU will not accept the name of Narendra Modi for the PM’s post.
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