Hours after the BJP accused Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chairman Chirag Paswan of trying to create confusion by insisting on his equations with top Saffron party leaders, the latter said that he will not run candidates against the BJP in the next election. .
Paswan has been praising the BJP and its top leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Interior Minister Amit Shah, while attacking JD (U) President and Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, leading to speculation. that he has some tacit understanding with the saffron party.
On the BJP accusations of the LJP leader seeking votes on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Paswan said: “I don’t need to use Prime Minister Modi’s photos to campaign. He lives in my heart, I am his Hanuman. If necessary , I’ll open my chest and show it. “
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar alleged on Friday that Paswan is “trying to mislead people” and called the LJP a “vote cutter”.
“Chirag Paswan has chosen a separate path in Bihar. Now he is trying to mislead people by taking the names of the main leaders of the BJP,” Javadekar said, adding that the BJP has “no B, C or D team. He went on to say that the Chirag Paswan LJP, which decided to go alone in the state, will be reduced to a “vote cutoff party.”
In response to Javadekar’s “vote-cutter” comment, Paswan said: “I am disappointed in the language of the BJP.”
The LJP has been embroiled in a bitter war of words with JD (U), with his ally apparently upset that the BJP has not attacked the LJP.
The BJP is competing in 121 of the total 243 seats in Bihar and JD (U) in 122 seats. The JD (U) and BJP were expected to accommodate the Hindustani Awam Morcha and the Vikassheel Insaan Party respectively, from their quota of seats.
On October 7, the BJP had allocated 11 seats to the Vikassheel Insaan Party from its quota.
The 243-member Bihar Assembly will go to the polls in three phases, on October 28, November 3 and 7, and the results will be announced on November 10.
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