Anti-BJP alliance in the works in Gujarat

New Delhi: A Bihar-like “secular” alliance, led by the Congress, could take on the ruling BJP in the coming Gujarat Assembly election, sources in the Sharad Yadav-led faction of JD(U) said on Monday.

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel is holding parleys with various parties, including the Sharad Yadav faction as well as the Left, that have a considerable clout in some pockets in the state, the sources said.

Mr Yadav and Chhotubhai Vasava, the newly-appointed president of the Sharad Yadav faction of JD(U), met Mr Patel on Sunday and discussed the contours of the proposed alliance, they said.

Mr Vasava told this newspaper, “We will ally with the Congress and also other parties like the Left. We will also try to have a tie-up with Hardik Patel.”