Lucknow: After the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) divided from the Grand Alliance in UP, the Rashtriya Lok Dal has now issued a major statement. The president of the party, Dr. Masood Ahmad says we will continue to be a part of the Grand Alliance and with SP, with and will remain. He has said that we will also strive to involve the Congress in this alliance.

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Masood Ahmad has said that our alliance was from SP, and will continue to be there. What will be the nature of the alliance ahead? Will determine our national leadership. We want to be the same as we were in alliance with the SP earlier, and this alliance should be further capitalized. The Congress should also be included. Masood Ahmad said that earlier the BSP Alliance was from SP and we were given Lok Sabha seats with SP quota. If the SP and BSP Alliance is over, it will have no impact on our alliance and the SP. The SP and the NCP are now believed to contest the up assembly by-election.

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BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday had announced a separate by-election to fight the alliance, though she has just refused to put a full break on the coalition. While advising Akhilesh Yadav to reform the SP, he said that the SP cadre needs to be a missionary like a BSP, and if Akhilesh is able to do so, the two parties will fight together in the future, and they will have to search a different path.