PATNA: The Bahujan Samaj Panty on April 16extended guarded support to the Janata Dal in the path coming assembly elections in Bihar, though its U.P. ally, Samajwadi Party, has announced its decision to contest maximum number of seals in the state on its own,.
Talking to newsmen here, BSP president Kenshi Ram, said his party would not have alliance with any other party in Bihar and when it came to supporting others it would prefer the Janata Dal to the Congress.
On the issue of social justice, he said it was the original concept of former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, and Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad, had merely worked under his shadow.
As to how many seats the BSP would contest in Bihar, Ram said he was yet to take a decision, “We will gauge our popularity from the turn-out at Sunday’s rally here,” he said.
Replying to a question, he said the Janata Dal was not homogeneous in nature and expressed the apprehension that Laloo Prasad might not get majority to the coming assembly elections. “We might have to help him out in forming the government,” he said.
Ram made it clear that the BSP believed in unity in political par- ties and not in engineering splits as done by the Bihar Chief Minister of his Uttar Pradesh counter- part Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 22, 1994
