Any Alliance In UP Will Be With Akhilesh Yadav, Says Nitish Kumar's Party

National president of Janata Dal (United) Rajeev Ranjan Singh has said if his party forms an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for next year's Lok Sabha polls, it will be with the Samajwadi Party.

The JD(U), which is in power in Bihar in alliance with the Rashtriya Janta Dal, has no elected representative in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

The party's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Anoop Patel resigned on Sunday in front of Mr Singh, citing personal reasons.   

The JD(U) national president announced that no new chief of the party's state unit would be announced. Satyendra Patel has been appointed as the state convenor, Mr Singh said in Lucknow.