Ahead of the Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Janshakti Party meet to formally announce their pre-poll "secular alliance" on April 3 in Lucknow, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan said on Monday that his party was a part and parcel of the United Progressive Alliance and will be part of any UPA government at the Centre after polls.
"We are not making any separate front. We have joined together to defeat communal forces in Bihar and UP. While in Bihar the Janata Dal-United-Bharatiya Janata Party combine is our target, we plan to defeat BJP and Bahujan Samaj Party in UP. We are not going to attack Congress during our campaigning in either of the states," Paswan told PTI in New Delhi.
Ruling out the possibility of any truck with the Third Front after polls, Paswan said, "the question for any tie-up with Third Front does not arise." Paswan also denied any pressure politics behind coming together of the three parties and said, "there is no pressure politics involved in it. We have an honest intention of defeating communal forces.From the day the LJP and RJD came together, there is a desertion spree in the JD-U in Bihar. Let the elections conclude, we will win good number of seats and form a UPA government at the Centre," he added.
"The Congress had also earlier said that it won't go for any national level alliance and prefer state specific alliances according to political reality there. This is precisely what was done in Bihar," Paswan argued.
