The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal-United (JDU) will contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections together, it was announced on Sunday.
"It has been decided that RJD and JDU will contest the Bihar polls in alliance," Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said after a meeting between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav at the official residence of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in New Delhi.
Mulayam Singh -- who has been named chief of the united Janata Paraivar to come into existence when six former constituents of the erstwhile Janata Dal reunite -- and JDU chief Sharad Yadav also participated in the meet.
A six-member team, three from each party, will be constituted to work out the seat-sharing formula between the two, said Ram Gopal Yadav.
On the contentious issue of chief ministerial candidate which had threatened to derail the alliance, he said: "There is no dispute. These things will be taken care of later."
Six parties which emerged out of the erstwhile Janata Dal -- including the JDU, RJD, SP, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) -- in April announced a merger to revive the old party.
