RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary to affix Akhilesh Yadav, Mamta Banerjee for joint ballot rally in Varanasi on March 3

By PTI

NOIDA: RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary might be becoming a member of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee for a joint ballot rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on Thursday.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which is preventing the UP meeting elections in tie-up with Yadav’s SP and is its main ally for western area of the state, made the announcement on social media Wednesday.

The joint rally might be held in Airhe village in Harhua block of Varanasi 12 pm onwards, the RLD mentioned.

Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, goes to polls on March 7 through the seventh and final part of meeting polls in UP.

Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo, had visited UP earlier on February 7-8 to carry a joint press convention with Yadav in Lucknow the place she predicted SP’s victory towards the BJP, like her celebration had carried out in West Bengal state polls final yr.

Banerjee had tweaked her celebration’s ballot anthem of “khela hobe’ to ‘Khela Hoga’ (the game is on) and stressed “if Bengal can do it (defeat BJP), so can Uttar Pradesh”.

Results of the seven-phase UP meeting polls might be declared on March 10.