Lucknow, Sept 03 (ANI): The Samajwadi Party on Thursday pulled out of the so-called grand secular alliance, saying that it was not happy over the number of seats allotted to it for the upcoming Bihar assembly polls.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said that the party was planning to go it alone as it was not consulted by its alliance partners the Janata Dal (U), the RJD and the Congress on seat-sharing.
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Political leaders on Thursday react after Samajwadi Party quit the grand alliance in Bihar and declared to contest the upcoming state Assembly elections on their own.
Earlier, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and relative of SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav had declared that SP has been given five seats to contest the Bihar poll. Bihar SP President Ramchandra Yadav said that the party will abide by the decision and that Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar failed to take SP in confidence.
JD (U) leader Ajay Alok said that the alliance will contact and try to convince SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to rethink on his decision. However, he also maintained that BJP has no existence in Bihar now. Congress remained hopeful that Mulayam Singh will rethink on his decision. BJP, on the other hand, maintained that the break-up of the grand alliance in Bihar was inevitable.
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