New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- Hours after Akhilesh Yadav asked Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to 'quit' the BJP-led ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), KC Tyagi, a senior member of the Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) on Friday responded saying it is Yadav who should call off his alliance with the Congress because of what happened during the Emergency.

Yadav made the remark while addressing the workers of his Samajwadi Party outside his residence in Lucknow after he was stopped by the Uttar Pradesh Police from visiting the memorial of Jai Prakash Narayan on the national icon's 122nd birth anniversary.

"The movement led by Jai Prakash Narayan was against the 'dictatorship' of the Congress. Emergency was imposed on June 25 (1975). There wa...