UPA to decide on PM candidate after polls, says Lalu Prasad

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has tasted victory and defeat in the same breath Saturday - winning one Lok Sabha seat and losing another one. Lalu Prasad won the Saran seat beating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday lost the polls in Pataliputra, but managed to defeat the BJP's candidate Rudy Pratap Singh at Saran. Lalu was initially trailing behind Saran in the votes tally.

May 7th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Thursday expressed confidence that his party would perform well in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar and the neighbouring state of Jharkhand. Speaking after casting his vote, he said that RJD in alliance with Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) of Ram Vilas Paswan would surprise everyone by sweeping polls.

May 4th, 2009 PATNA - Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi said here Monday that she was confident that her husband, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, will become the prime minister of the nation some day. 'Saheb (Lalu Prasad) will become the prime minister one day,' Rabri Devi told reporters before setting out to campaign for her husband, who is contesting the parliamentary polls from Patliputra seat in Patna district.

April 23rd, 2009 HAJIPUR - The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) were only considering Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the office if the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) comes back to power, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan said here Thursday. 'The only name in our mind for the prime ministerial candidate is Manmohan Singh.

April 22nd, 2009 HOWRAH - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Tuesday called up Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee and clarified that he had not left the United Progressive Alliance, Mukherjee said at an election meeting here. Lalu's telephone call to the external affairs minister came hours after the two engaged in verbal fisticuffs while addressing election meetings.

April 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan indicated Wednesday that it would rethink its relationship with the Congress if Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Lalu Prasad was not part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). 'Jo secular forces hain usme bitterness nahin aani chahiye.

April 21st, 2009 PATNA - The Congress may be projecting Manmohan Singh as the next prime minister but United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partner Lalu Prasad Tuesday said the grouping's prime ministerial candidate would be decided only after the elections in consultation with constituent parties. 'UPA is a confederation of secular parties and does not belong only to the Congress.

April 21st, 2009 PATNA - Retracting from his stand on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday said that United Progressive Alliance (UPA) does not necessarily belong to the Congress party and the coalition would meet after the completion of elections to decide their primeministerial candidate. The Railway Minister had maintained all along that Manmohan Singh is the UPA nominee for the post of Prime Minister.

April 19th, 2009 PATNA - After RJD's Lalu Prasad, it was Lok Janshakti Party's Ram Vilas Paswan's turn on Sunday to criticise Congress Party. LJP chief and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that the Congress should not have flexed muscles by fielding a candidate against him in his parliamentary constituency in Hajipur.

April 17th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Friday filed his nomination for the newly-formed Patliputra parliamentary constituency. Prasad is contesting the polls from two constituencies.

April 17th, 2009 PATNA - Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Friday filed his nomination papers from Bihar's Patliputra constituency for the Lok Sabha polls. Lalu Prasad filed his papers at the district administration office here.

April 15th, 2009 PATNA - The Congress Wednesday upped the ante and fielded against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad a dissident MP who had been campaigning for him in Bihar's Patliputra constituency just last week. Bihar Congress president Anil Kumar Sharma announced Wednesday that the party had nominated Vijay Singh Yadav as the Congress candidate in the largely rural Patliputra constituency, which will go to polls on May 7.

April 10th, 2009 PATNA - Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Friday told people in Bihar not to support candidates propped up by murder convict and MP Pappu Yadav, saying he had been expelled from the party. 'I have expelled Pappu Yadav from the RJD.

April 6th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Monday said that had he been the country's home minister he would have run a 'roller' over Varun Gandhi for his hate speeches against Muslims and bothered about the consequences later. Speaking at an election rally in Kishanganj in Bihar, Lalu Prasad said: 'If I were the country's home minister, and if Varun had said this (inflammatory speeches), then I would have run a roller over his chest, and thought about the consequences later.' He was addresssing a rally for the RJD's Kishanganj candidate, Union Minister Taslimuddin, who is the sitting MP from the constituency.