Lucknow, Aug. 12 -- The Rashtriya Lok Dal, a BJP ally, has demanded the removal of Uttar Pradesh sugarcane development and sugar industry minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary from the council of ministers following his statement that the RLD is a 'spoiler' and any party that forms an alliance with it loses power.

Addressing a gathering in Mathura on Sunday, Chaudhary said any party that allied with the RLD was doomed and faced defeat in elections. In 2002, when the BJP led by Rajnath Singh formed an alliance with the RLD, it lost the Uttar Pradesh assembly election, Chaudhary said.

Earlier when the RLD joined the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, the Narasimha Rao (Congress) government or the VP Singh (National Front) government, all lost po...