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Patna: In an apparent reference to the Congress with which his party failed to strike an understanding for Assembly polls in Jharkhand, RJD chief Lalu Prasad has said national parties are out to ‘crush’ smaller, regional outfits.
“National parties want relentlessly to crush smaller and regional parties. They want to virtually eat them up in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra,” he said.
But leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav of the SP, Sharad Pawar of the NCP and Mayawati of the BSP besides him, will not get marginalised by “such nefarious designs”, Prasad said at the RJD national executive meeting here on Wednesday.
Attacking the Centre, the former railway minister said UPA-I, in which the RJD was a coalition partner, had an agenda and common minimum programme, which UPA-II lacks and is content with achieving a mere 100-day target.
There is a crisis of leadership at the Centre to steer the country out of the ‘mess’, he said, adding, “Nothing tangible is visible in checking rising prices of essential commodities, rampant unemployment and problems before farmers and the health and education sectors.”
Prasad also hit out at the JD(U) and the BJP saying they were unable to champion the cause of the state before the Centre.
He said the days of the Nitish Kumar government are numbered and the RJD is set to return to power in Bihar. The former chief minister, who is extensively touring the state to revive the RJD’s base, said, “I am happy that the RJD has been kept out of UPA-II”.
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