Bihar leader Pappu Yadav merges Jan Adhikar Party with Congress

Bihar leader Pappu Yadav merges Jan Adhikar Party with Congress ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Bihar leader Pappu Yadav on March 20 formally merged his Jan Adhikar Party with the Indian National Congress and formally joined the party at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.

Earlier, Mr. Yadav had called on Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad, fuelling speculations of a realignment with the party which had fielded him from Madhepura in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The RJD has, at present, the Congress and three Left parties CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI and CPI(M) as its alliance partners.

Mr. Yadav, whose wife Ranjit Ranjan is a Rajya Sabha MP from Congress, however, had dismissed speculations of a merger of his Jan Adhikar Party even as he maintained that he had “family relations” with the RJD president and shared Lalu Prasad’s “ideological stance against BJP”.

(With PTI inputs)