Lalu Prasad silent on alliance with Congress for upcoming Lok Sabha polls

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Sunday refused to speak about alliance with Congress and other parties for the upcoming general elections but slammed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) "for trivialising democracy".

Interacting with the reporters after returning from Delhi with wife Rabri Devi and younger son Tejaswi Pratap, Prasad refused to offer any comment on the outcome of his alliance talks with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul.

"I will not speak on the issue (alliance talks with Congress)....It is not appropriate for him to say anything on what has been discussed closed door," he told reporters. The RJD supremo, however, maintained that his party will work closely with the Congress and LJP during the elections and go to the electorate to seek their blessings.

"It's for the people of Bihar to decide as to what they order us to do and what they expect from us," Prasad, who spent over two weeks in Delhi post incarceration in Ranchi jail in fodder scam, said.

"We will go to the people after 'Makar Sankranti..... let's see how it works out for us in the time to come," he said.

Prasad also sought to assuage LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan, maintaining he had never uttered a bad word about the LJP leader who had met him during imprisonment to make the occasion an emotional one for him.

Prasad lashed out at the senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his long stint with the BJP-led NDA and said that the latter has become an appendage of communal forces who want to rupture peace and communal amity.

On SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's attack, the RJD supremo said he had never spoken against the former or his government in Uttar Pradesh and merely inquired from the UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav whether they had visited the camps for riot victims in Muzaffarnagar.

Prasad said he had also expressed surprise at those labelling riot victims dying in the relief camps as belonging to the Indian Mujahideen (IM). The RJD supremo alleged AAP was trivializing democracy by holding the 'Janata Durbar' on roof of a building and criticizing those from whom they were taking support to run the Delhi government.