Party chief Lok Janshakti and MP Chirag Paswan address a press conference after launching the ‘Bihar First-Bihari First’ campaign at the party’s office in Patna on February 21, 2020 (PTI Photo).
Earlier on Thursday, top BJP leaders, including Interior Minister Amit Shah and party chairman JP Nadda, met with LJP chief Chirag Paswan to negotiate a seat-sharing agreement with allies. .
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The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Sunday practically withdrew from the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar ahead of the state assembly elections, saying that it will not fight in the elections under the leadership of the ruling alliance of the JD (U) president and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. in the state, LJP sources said.
A meeting of the LJP parliamentary board chaired by its president Chirag Paswan passed a resolution in favor of an alliance with the BJP and said its MLAs will work to strengthen the hand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP has already announced that the NDA will fight the polls under the leadership of Nitish Kumar.
As such, the LJP resolution makes the party’s break with the NDA in the state inevitable. The BJP central electoral committee will meet later in the evening to finalize the party’s candidates for the three-phase assembly election, which begins on October 28.
Earlier on Thursday, top BJP leaders, including Interior Minister Amit Shah and party chairman JP Nadda, met with LJP chief Chirag Paswan to negotiate a seat-sharing agreement with allies. .
Paswan, LJP sources said, listed his complaints with Bihar’s chief minister and JD (U) president Nitish Kumar and spoke of pressure from within his party to contest 143 seats in the 243 assembly elections. meeting seats here.
“No agreement to share seats at the meeting was finalized,” said an LJP leader, adding that Shah noted that the BJP has had no differences with the LJP. Shah’s presence at a meeting of BJP leaders at the Bihar polls on Wednesday and now his meeting with Paswan underscored his effort to resolve internal differences within the ruling National Democratic Alliance in a friendly manner.
In 2015, he contested 42 seats and won two. The JD (U) was then part of the opposition alliance that decisively defeated the NDA.
(With PTI inputs)
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