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A M Sahay in Patna
Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal president Laloo Prasad Yadav predicted a hung assembly in the Uttar Pradesh after the assembly polls.
"No party is in position to get majority on its own," Yadav said minutes before leaving for Uttar Pradesh to campaign for Congress party.
However, Yadav was confident that the 'communal' Bharatiya Janata Party would be defeated in the election.
"The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh would be jettisoned after the polls," he said.
Yadav is scheduled to address a Congress party election campaign in Aligarh, along with the senior Congress leader Gulam Nabi Azad.
Yadav is also scheduled to join Congress party president Sonia Gandhi's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh.
Yadav, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal rules Bihar in alliance with the Congress and is contesting 25 seats in Uttar Pradesh, took the decision to campaign for Congress on Monday after he met Gandhi in New Delhi.
"We have a seat-sharing adjustment with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh and we want to defeat the communal BJP," he said.
Referring to Amitabh Bachchan's apparently successful rallies, Yadav said that Amitabh might have hundreds of good qualities due to his 'filmi' style, but the people will still prefer politicians like me.
"I am against Bollywood stars campaigning for elections because it turns the campaign into a joke," he said.
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