Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav join hands to fight BJP

Former chief ministers Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, who were at loggerheads until the rout of their parties in the recently-concluded 2014 Lok Sabha elections, have decided to campaign together in the upcoming by-polls to 10 Assembly seats in Bihar

Vashishtha Narayan Singh, the ruling JD-U state president, said his party had already formed a grand alliance with the RJD and Congress to contest the by-elections together.

"The three parties will fight the bypolls together," he said in Patna on Sunday July 27,2014

The JDU and the RJD will contest from four seats each, the Congress will fight from the remaining two constituencies."

Vashishtha reiterated that Nitish and Lalu would campaign together. 

A formal announcement in this regard is expected to be made after the return of Nitish to Patna on July 30. The former chief minister is now away in Mumbai.

Lalu Prasad Yadav who hosted an Iftaar party at his bungalow on Saturday evening, which was attended by a host of JD-U leader, said the grand alliance between the RJD, JD-U and Congress would take on the communal forces.