merisarkar news service New Delhi, December 11, 2011
Alliance extended to UP
Setting at rest all speculation of going it alone in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, JD(U) on Sunday said it has decided to contest the polls in alliance with its NDA partner BJP.
"The talks with BJP over sharing of seats in UP are in the final stages. We are planning to come up with a joint list under the NDA banner," JD(U) general secretary K C Tyagi said.
The two parties are likely to hold a few more rounds of discussions before coming out with a final list of candidates.
"We have prepared a list of candidates... It will be discussed with BJP to give it a final shape. The list will be announced by the top leadership of both parties very soon," Tyagi said.
The negotiations for seat-sharing in Uttar Pradesh are being conducted by Tyagi, who is a close confidante of party chief Sharad Yadav and BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
During the process of negotiations, the two old NDA allies have also assessed the wining ability of their candidates in the wake of delimitation of Assembly constituencies in the state, he said.
