JD(U) to join BJP-led NDA, RJD slams decision calling it 'meaningless'

The Janata Dal (United) has passed a resolution to join the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

The decision was taken at the JD(U)'s national executive chaired by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Calling the decision to join NDA as meaningless, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) led by Lalu Yadav said that the JD(U) should rechristen itself as the "new BJP or Sanghi".

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"This resolution is meaningless and it is simply a cover for the real revolution.. JDU was voted by the poor and the down trodden. You have robbed the mandate and now have the audacity to call it that we are going to be part of the NDA. Gentleman, Nitish ji should have said that now we are the new BJP or Sanghi and not the JD-U," RJD leader Manoj Jha told ANI.

The JD(U) and the BJP came together to form government in Bihar after the former split ties with the RJD and the Congress.

Senior party leader Sharad Yadav, who has openely rebelled against the party's decision to go with the BJP, was invited for the meeting, JD(U) leader K C Tyagi said.

"Sharad Yadav is invited for the JD(U) national executive meet and he can sort out differences, but he shouldn't attend Lalu Yadav's programme. We will lose our faith in him, if he does so. He is one of the founders of the party, therefore, he can put forward his views in the meeting," Tyagi told the media here.