It has been in power there for the last 14 years. 

The state will face the assembly polls by the end of next year along with Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two other states ruled by the BJP. 

The "save composite culture" meet was organised at the national level on August 17 in which Yadav had made clear his intentions to defy his party chief Nitish Kumar's move to ally with the BJP, claiming that the country's secularism and pluralism was under attack in the NDA government. 

"The country's youth need to be told and made aware about the values of our Constitution when issues like cow and love jihad have become part of our public discourse," he said.