Patna: Trouble grew for two rebel Janata Dal United (JD-U) parliamentarians, Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar, on Tuesday after the Rajya Sabha (RS) secretariat issued notices to them over their alleged involvement in “anti-party activities”. Both have been given one week to explain their stand over the issue.
The RS secretariat issued notices to them a week after the JD-U leadership petitioned the vice-president-cum-chairman of Rajya Sabha, Venkaiah Naidu, seeking cancellation of their House membership for anti-party activities.
“We have given documentary and other evidence of both the leaders’ anti-party activities. That they have defied the party leadership and gone to the Election Commission seeking its symbol, is also an anti-party activity,” JD-U general secretary Sanjay Jha told the media on Tuesday.
The JD-U turned aggressive against the duo after they rejected the party’s request to stay away from rival Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD’s) rally against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Patna on August last.
Yadav, who was the founding president of the JD-U not only attended the RJD rally but also launched a front attack on the BJP for implementing its “divisive” agenda and weakening the democratic set-up of the country. He also claimed the Grad Alliance still existed in Bihar even after JD-U president, Nitish Kumar, walked away from the coalition.
Last month, the JD-U also removed Yadav as the parliamentary party’s leader in the Rajya Sabha and replaced him with RCP Singh, former bureaucrat-turned-parliamentarian.
On the other hand, Yadav has moved the Election Commission, claiming his faction is the “real” JD-U and also staked claim over the party’s poll symbol. Last month, Yadav also undertook a three-day tour of the state asking the masses how the chief minister betrayed the people’s mandate by breaking the Grand Alliance midway and walking into BJP camp.
He has alleged the chief minister didn’t discuss the issue of breaking alliance with the Grand Alliance in the party form and took the decision on his own.
