Summary:
Patna, Jan 22 (PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar"s JD(U) on Saturday asserted that its decision to go solo in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls will have no adverse impact on its alliance with BJP here.
JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan pointed out that the party has fought elections in many states against the BJP but it has not affected the ruling coalition in Bihar.
"We decided to go it alone because attempts to form an alliance with BJP in UP did not bear fruit.
Our party"s senior leader R C P Singh, who is a member of the union cabinet, had made efforts in that direction.
But it is not an issue any more," Lalan told reporters here upon return from the national capital.
Notably, R C P Singh, who had preceded Lalan as JD(U) chief, was a UP cadre IAS officer who became close to Nitish Kumar when the former was on central deputation and the latter was the railway minister.When Kumar became the Bihar CM, the bureaucrat joined him here as his principal secretary and served in that capacity until his formal entry into politics about a decade ago.