Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, who came to Delhi for a medical treatment at AIIMS, on Thursday, 29 March, backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s stand that the inclusion of Congress is must for any anti-BJP formation in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
"There can be no Third Front without the Congress," the Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo told India Today on Thursday, echoing Mamata Banerjee’s statements from a day before.
Banerjee after meeting Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi had said, “We want Congress to be with us. Congress should also help in this one-to-one fight. We have spoken to other parties. All states regional parties, in a kind of conclave, should work together."
When the news channel asked Prasad if Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be the face of the Third Front, he said, "We will, however, decide whether Rahul would lead it or not."