Eye on 2019, Akhilesh reaches out to Lalu

After joining hands with BSP in the recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party has decided to reach out to RJD, with Akhilesh Yadav deputing party’s vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda to meet Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi in Ranchi, in order to cobble together a grand-alliance to fight BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.