Thaw in Congress, RJD chill as Rahul Gandhi meets Lalu Prasad Yadav; INDIA allies warm up for Bihar polls

It was Tejashwi, who archetypal reached retired to Rahul astatine a Patna edifice wherever the Congress person had checked successful aft landing successful the metropolis to be a “Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan”. Incidentally, the RJD’s nationalist enforcement gathering was being held astatine the aforesaid edifice Saturday.

As Tejashwi got to cognize astir Rahul’s accomplishment successful the hotel, helium came retired of the party’s conclave to greet him and widen an invitation to sojourn his parents’ residence. Accepting his invite, Rahul visited Lalu’s 10, Circular Road residence aboriginal successful the day, wherever the RJD main greeted him with a bouquet. Lalu’s woman and ex-chief curate Rabri Devi presented a shawl to Rahul.

Other children of Lalu and Rabri including Pataliputra MP Misa Bharati, her sister Rohini Acharya and their member and ex-minister Tej Pratap Yadav were besides contiguous to invited Rahul, who stayed astatine their location for astir 20 minutes and had immoderate “desi snacks”, sources said.

RJD nationalist spokesperson Subodh Kumar Mehta told The Indian Express, “Though it was an informal meeting, determination was a batch of warmth from some sides. Our governmental rivals had been trying to make perceptions of differences betwixt Congress and RJD. Rahul ji’s gathering with our apical leaders has cleared the air. RJD and Congress person been aged allies and some parties person their abstracted policies and programmes.”

Congress spokesperson Gyan Ranjan Gupta said: “Rahul ji and Lalu ji person been gathering each different successful the past arsenic well. The contiguous gathering besides exuded warmth and camaraderie.”

Referring to the Congress leader’s little sojourn to the authorities enactment office successful Patna during the day, Gupta said, “Rahul ji, who besides concisely addressed enactment workers, has motivated the cadre. He asked america to combat RSS and BJP unneurotic and besides raised concerns implicit insubstantial leaks. He besides appealed to CM Nitish Kumar to talk to protesting Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) students.”

Addressing the league connected the Constitution, Rahul said the Congress volition propulsion for a nationwide caste census and request raising the preservation bounds to beyond the existing 50 per cent cap.

Meanwhile, the RJD nationalist enforcement gathering hailed Tejashwi’s leadership, stating that “From being instrumental successful enactment of INDIA bloc to being steadfast connected socialism, secularism and societal justice, helium (Tejashwi) has near an indelible people connected the caller generation”.

The RJD conclave underlined that the enactment would enactment towards ensuring that the adjacent Bihar authorities was formed nether Tejashwi’s leadership.

Senior RJD person Abdul Bari Siddiqui said portion Lalu has continued to stay “very fashionable crossed the country”, erstwhile Deputy CM Tejashwi has “emerged arsenic a nationalist leader”.