Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president and Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav today (Sep 5, 2004) made light of assertions of firebrand BJP (Bharatiya Janata Dal) leader Uma Bharati that she would extensively campaign against RJD in Bihar during the upcoming Assembly poll.

''What difference will it make (Uma Bharati coming to Bihar to campaign against the RJD)? She and other top BJP leaders have been making trips to the State for long, but BJP failed miserably to expand its small support base as it is evident from past three Assembly polls and the recent Lok Sabha election,'' he told reporters in Patna.

Reacting to the statement of Laloo over her arrest in Karnataka, Bharati and other BJP leaders had said that she would campaign extensively in Bihar against Prasad and his party.

In a lighter vein, the RJD chief said that the present misery of Bharati (her resigning from the post of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh) was due to the fact that she failed to keep her promise of coming back to famous Baidyanath temple in Deogarh, now in Jharkhand, which she visited before becoming the Chief Minister.

He also took a pot shot at Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav for asserting to overthrow the RJD in Bihar and said, Yadav should stop day-dreaming. The SP is in league with the BJP and their presence in Bihar will go unnoticed.

He dubbed the SP general secretary Amar Singh as dalal (power broker) who danced with Bollywood heroines and said he was the man who was corrupting Mulayam's mind and Indian polity.