Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday cleared uncertainties over the final merger of the constituents of the Janata Parivar and said it was on right track. Earlier on Friday, Mr. Kumar held meetings with Janata Parivar leaders in Delhi.
“The merger process is on the right track and I think it will not take much time,” he said at a conclave on skill development in Patna.
He added that the date of the next meeting on merger would be decided soon and thereafter everything would be clear.
Earlier on Friday, the State JD(U) chief Basistha Narayan Singh had said in Muzaffarpur that if merger of Janata Parivar was delayed, the alliance parties — the JD(U), the RJD and the Congress — would contest the upcoming Assembly elections under a political understanding. “But, after the poll there will be one party, one flag,” he said.
During the meeting on Friday, Mr. Kumar is believed to have apprised the Janata Parivar leaders about the necessity of a merger ahead of the polls.
The Janata experiment: From The Hindu archives
October 21, 2014
>Janata Parivar losing its touch with Mandal politics
Finishes way behind in Haryana as the BJP outplays it in social engineering
October 2, 2014
>Signs of Janata Parivar taking shape
Though not a Third Front yet, there are signs that the Janata Parivar — and some of its old friends — shaken out of its lethargy by this year’s general election results, is tentatively working towards creating an anti-BJP platform.
August 21, 2010
>JD(S) all set to lure back Janata Parivar members
February 6, 2007
>Gowda blamed for breaking Janata Parivar
President of the Karnataka unit of the Janata Dal (U) B. Somashekar said that Janata Dal (S) president H.D. Deve Gowda, who was primarily responsible for the division of the Janata Parivar has no moral right to talk about uniting the Janata Parivar once again.
January 29, 2007
>JD(S) to work for unification of Janata Parivar: Deve Gowda
“I am willing to shed my ego, if any, and even step down from the presidentship of the party... ”
May 6, 2006
>Sharad Yadav vows to unite Janata Parivar
President of the Janata Dal (United) and former Union Minister Sharad Yadav said that he would make efforts to unite splinter groups of the Janata Dal, including the Janata Dal (Secular) headed by H.D. Deve Gowda.
April 14, 2004
>CPI(M) accuses Congress, BJP of keeping Janata Parivar divided
February 25, 2004
>Janata Parivar will come together: Swamy
Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, said that the decision of the All-India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD) to contest the elections on the JP symbol was the beginning of the coming together of the Janata Parivar to "revive the spirit of 1977 once again."
July 4, 2003
>JD(S), JD(U) agree to merge ‘unconditionally’
In a significant political development in Hassan, the leaders of the Janata Dal (Secular) and the JD (United) agreed to merge their parties at the Karnataka level.
January 4, 2003
>Pawar optimistic on merger of Janata Dal factions
The President of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Sharad Pawar, has said that the consolidation of a third front was the need of the hour in the light of the poll outcome in Gujarat and the Congress's outlook in the recent elections.
December 1, 2001
>Efforts on to unite Janata ‘parivar’
Efforts to reunite various factions of the Janata Parivar — the Samata Party, the Janata Dal (United) and the Lok Janshakti — aligned with the National Democratic Alliance, have been intensified with an eye on the elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
January 8, 2001
>Janata parivar: Another split
The Samata Party, yet another splinter group that emerged out of the grand alliance of non-Congress forces — the Janata experiment — has split once again.
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