New Delhi: Ahead of Bihar elections, Janata Dal United, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal (Secular) and Indian National Lok Dal are all set to merge and form one political outfit. SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who has the largest number of MPs in Parliament among the group, is likely to head the formation.
Sources say that most of the issues have been ironed out leading to the much-talked-about merger of Janata Parivar.
In the Lok Sabha, the SP has five members, RJD-four, and JD-U, JD (S) and INLD two each. In total they have 15 members in the Lower House. While in the Rajya Sabha, the SP leads the pack with 15 members, the JD-U has 12 and INLD, JD(S) and RJD one each. Their total number in the Upper House is 30.
With their back to the wall after the Narendra Modi juggernaut decimated them particularly JD(U), RJD and SP in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the six constituents of the Janata Parivar, including INLD, JDS and Samajwadi Janata Party, decided to turn the clock back and come together to fight a resurgent BJP.
After a series of meetings among their leaders, they had formally authorised SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to work out the broad outlines of merger in December 2014.
The parties erstwhile part of Janata Party had unseated the Indira Gandhi-led Congress from power in 1977 and they have come together and fallen apart a number of times in past under different nomenclatures.
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