New Delhi: Senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav has scotched all speculations over an impending split in the party and asserted there was "no question" of such an eventuality arising in spite of recent events.

Refuting close aide Vijay Verma's statement that he was considering breaking away to float a new party, Yadav said, "Vijay Verma is my old companion. Whatever he said, he said it out of emotions. There is no question of forming a new party."

On Wednesday, Verma had hinted that owing to differences with party president Nitish Kumar post his walking out of the Bihar grand alliance, the JD(U) veteran could form a new party.

"Sharadji is in touch with old friends and is pondering over the political situation. Forming a new party is one of the options to which a serious thought is being given," Verma had claimed.He had also added that Yadav had ruled out joining the NDA government at the Centre as a minister.

It was widely reported that Yadav was displeased with Nitish for his sudden decision to quit the grand alliance comprising the RJD and Congress and had openly stated that by joining forces with the BJP, Nitish was "cheating with the mandate of the people of Bihar."

He had also been quick to attack the BJP, pointing out that the saffron party is yet to fulfill its electoral promise of bringing back black money stashed abroad. He had also demanded why no action had been taken against those whose names had appeared in the infamous Panama Papers.

Neither black money stashed abroad returned, one of the main slogans of the ruling party, nor anyone caught out of those named in Panama papers," Yadav said in a tweet, mere days after the JD(U)-BJP combine formed the government in the state.