New Delhi: RJD chief Lalu Prasad has asserted that “game will be over for BJP in the 2019 LokSahab election if UP opposition leaders Mayawati and AkhileshYadav come together.

Speaking at the 21st foundation day function of his party Prasad said he was making "earnest efforts" to bring BSP chief Mayawati and SP leader AkhileshYadav together at an August 27 rally being organised here by the RJD.

"If Mayawati and AkhileshYadav come together, the 2019 match (general election) is over," he said, adding that the BJP had won the 2014 parliamentary poll as the opposition was then divided in the country.

Prasad, who was flanked by his minister sons Tejaswi Prasad Yadav and TejPratapYadav, was accompanied by a host of ministers and RJD leaders. He said prominent leaders of non-BJP parties would share the dais at the rally and "show a new direction to the country like Mahatama Gandhi had done by launching the Champaran Satyagraha against the British from Bihar".

Prasad said the country was witnessing an "emergency-like situation" under the BJP-led government at the Centre, and held that his efforts to bring UP opposition leaders Mayawati and AkhileshYadav together would help them defeat BJP in 2019.

In a scathing attack against the NDA government, the RJD supremo said the country was witnessing an "undeclared emergency" which, he held, was worse than the one imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975.

He questioned the BJP's portrayal of its presidential nominee, Ram NathKovind, as a Dalit. "In Gujarat, Kori (the caste to which Kovind belongs) is an OBC caste and constitutes around 18 per cent of the state population. NarendraModi chose to field Kovind in the presidential election in order to attract votes of this big chunk," Prasad claimed.

Meira Kumar, he added, belonged to an all-India Dalit caste. "Due to my firm ideology against communalism and fascism of the BJP and RSS, even if the Congress had supported an NDA candidate, I would not have voted for him," he said.