Grand Alliance a sinking ship, says BJP as Mulayam’s SP walks out

"It has now been proved that grand alliance is a sinking ship. Yadav was the first one to jump off from it because nobody wants to be on a ship which is going down," said BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party stormed out of the grand alliance before Bihar polls.

The anti-BJP Grand Alliance on Thursday suffered a blow ahead of the Bihar assembly polls with Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party storming out of it, saying it felt “humiliated” at being allotted a paltry five seats and deciding to contest the elections on its own.

“In Bihar the party will contest separately. The bigger parties in the alliance did not consult us while declaring seats due to which the SP felt humiliated. This is not the ‘gathbandhan dharma’,” SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav told reporters in Lucknow.

Who said what

NCP General Secretary Tariq Anwar: They (SP) have taken a right decision. The efforts to bring back splinter parties into Janata Parivar have virtually come to an end. Sometimes we are blamed for weakening secular alliance by walking out but its not true. We are forced to do this due to monopolistic approach of JD(U), RJD and Congress.

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Sharad Yadav: We are old very old colleagues. I have to talk to Bhai (brother) Mulayam. I have talked to him once. I will talk to him again. We will resolve this finally,” Yadav told reporters in Delhi.

Syed Shahnawaz Hussain: It has now been proved that grand alliance is a sinking ship. Yadav was the first one to jump off from it because nobody wants to be on a ship which is going down. It seems that his ‘swabhiman’ (self-respect) awakened after the Swabhiman Rally of the alliance.

Rajiv Pratap Rudy: A grand alliance was formed in Bihar to stop BJP/NDA; on 13th August NCP withdrew its support, today SP has quit Janata Parivar.

Shatrughan Sinha: It’s their matter, I have nothing to say about it.