Laloo accuses Mulayam of splitting secular vote bank

RJD's Laloo Yadav has said that in case of a hung Parliament a non-BJP, non-NDA Govt will be installed minus Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Accusing the Samajwadi Party chief of splitting the secular vote bank by fielding candidates everywhere, including Bihar, RJD supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav said on Wednesday that in case of a hung Parliament a non-BJP, non-NDA Government will be installed minus Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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"Already the Prime Minister has indicated that Mulayam Singh is very near to him. With the collusion of the BJP, he (Mulayam) has set 'vote-batwa (vote-splitter)' candidates everywhere, including Bihar," the RJD leader told NDTV.

Categorically stating that Mulayam was not a part of the secular alliance, the Bihar leader ruled out taking his support for a majority. "He is not anti-BJP," he said.

To a question as to who will lead the secular alliance, he said Congress President Sonia Gandhi might head it. "If she refuses, we will sit together...Anybody can become...We have sufficient candidates, superior than Atal Bihari Vajpayee," he said.

Asked if he was in the race for prime ministership, the former Bihar Chief Minister said, "one day I will become, not tomorrow."