NEW DELHI (PTI): In a major political development in India, all the splinter groups of the opposition Janata Dal would fight the forthcoming assembly elections in the four northern states under the original party.
The Janata Dal (A) under leadership of Ajit Singh, Janata Dal (B) with S.R.Bommai as president and former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar’s Samajwadi Janata Party (SJP) were coming together after almost three years since the breakup of the original Janata Dal.
The decision to have the “original unified Janata Dal” was taken at the meeting of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the JD (B) here Sept.18, party spokesman Hari Kishore Singh said.
The SJP under the leadership of Chandra Shekhar broke away from the Janata Dal leading to the fall of the V.P.Singh government in November 1990 and Ajit Singh broke away from the Janata Dal in 1991. The decision to fight the forthcoming elections as the original Janata Dal was taken after parleys among Ieaders of the three Parties, namely Ajit Singh, Chandra Shekhar and Bommai.
The four states Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were ruled by the Right Wing Bharatiya Janata Party before president’s rule was imposed in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 24, 1993
