New Delhi: Toughening his stand against party Chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, JD (U) Rajya Sabha MP Sharad Yadav will start his three day ‘Jan Samvad’ or mass contact programme in 10 districts of the state from today following the collapse of grand alliance.

JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Sharad Yadav said that he will interact with the people to “seek a way out”. “In a way,” he said, “the trust of people has broken” after the Grand Alliance — comprising RJD, JD(U) and Congress — was undone in Bihar, and Nitish teamed up with the BJP to head an NDA government.

Stating that the Grand Alliance was “a kind of an agreement with people” of Bihar, Yadav, Nitish’s predecessor as party president, said, “If the alliance has broken, the trust of people has also broken. I am going among the people to talk with them on this…. I will seek a way out — the way out will emerge only from there.” About Yadav’s Bihar programme, state JD(U) chief Bashishta Narain Singh said, “It’s a personal visit. The party has nothing to do with it…. His (Yadav’s) recent activities are against the stated stand of the JD(U).”

On Nitish Kumar’s decision to break away from the Grand Alliance and join the NDA, Singh said, “JD(U)’s extended legislature party meeting, attended not only by MLAs and MLCs but also district presidents and office-bearers, had authorised Nitish Kumar to take a decision keeping in view larger interests of the party and the state.”