Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav met Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Monday afternoon and offered his full support to her in the coming assembly polls in Bengal.
“It is Lalu Ji’s decision to provide full support to Mamata Ji. Our first priority is to stop BJP from coming to power in Bengal,” said Yadav after a meeting with TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat.
He, however, avoided giving a straightforward answer to questions by journalists about whether the RJD will contest the elections in alliance with the TMC.
RJD’s decision to support Banerjee is a major boost for the TMC which has been battered by the mass resignation of its leaders and party workers, including several MPs and MLAs.
He, however, refrained from responding to questions about if RJD will contest elections in alliance with the TMC, and said that the upcoming polls will be a fight for saving “ideals and values”. “Our party’s stand is to provide full support to Mamata ji,” he said.
Meanwhile, Banerjee said she and jailed RJD supremo Lalu Prasad share “mutual respect”.
“When we are fighting, it is brother Tejashwi who is also fighting, we are together,” she said.
