As Bihar goes to polls for the first phase of Assembly elections, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad saying that he was betrayed by both the leaders.
Describing Kumar to be a 'fraud', Yadav said the JDU leader ended up cheating despite initially making moves to bring the disparate Janata Parivar constituents under one banner, in an apparent reference to meagre five seats offered by the secular alliance to his party for the Bihar assembly polls which led to the party's exit.
"I convinced the duo to form the alliance. It was me who brought Lalu and Nitish together. Lalu never trusted Nitish. It was tough to convince Lalu, which I did successfully," he claimed.
He also expressed bewilderment at the RJD supremo falling into the Nitish's trap despite being convicted in the fodder scam cases pursued by Kumar's men. "I wonder what has prompted the RJD supremo to stand with Kumar despite being sentenced to five-year imprisonment in the fodder scam which was pursued by the chief minister's men in the courts," Yadav said.
Yadav also raised a question mark over claims of development undertaken by the Bihar chief minister during his decade-long rule in the poll-bound state, saying that the SP government in Uttar Pradesh has done much more in the three-and-a-half-year rule by the Akhilesh Yadav government.
The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also attacked both the RJD and JDU for betraying socialist movement by not doing enough for welfare of the poor people.
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