PATNA: In less than 24 hours after JD (U) publicly expressed his “anguish” that BJP inducted six of their seven MLA to the party Arunachal pradesh, the saffron festival on Monday went into a damage control mode to protect against any threat to the continuation of the campaign led by Nitish Kumar. NDA Government in Bihar.
“The BJP-JD (U) alliance is ‘atoot’ (unbreakable) in Bihar. We strongly believe that the NDA government will work for its full five-year term under the leadership of Nitish, ”a BJP veteran and Rajya sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi (SuMo) said on the sidelines of a function to unveil the statue of the former Minister of Finance of the Union Arun jaitley in Patna.
Nitish leads the NDA government out of four parties: BJP, JD (U), Hindustani Awam Morcha, Secular and Vikassheel Insaan Party . Previously, Nitish led the NDA government of JD (U) and BJP in Bihar for 11 of the last 15 years with SuMo as his deputy.
Nitish resigned on Monday as national president of JD (U) and installed CPR Singh on the job, apparently to make it clear that he had no more stomach left to handle any differences that might arise between the two parties in the future, and in that situation it would be Singh’s responsibility to do so.
When asked if the level of coordination between BJP and JD (U) has suffered due to his election to Rajya Sabha and the consequent move to Delhi, SuMo said: “No, there is no lack of coordination between the two parties. Even in the past (when he was CM deputy himself), there had been some differences on occasions, but the leadership of the two parties always resolved them ”.
Congratulating RCP on his appointment as president of JD (U), SuMo hoped that “the coordination between the two parties will be strengthened.”
Despite all this, sources said that the events in Arunachal Pradesh had left Nitish “anguished” and “personally furious”, as had happened just a day before the start of the two-day national executive meeting of JD (U) in Patna in December. 26.
As an immediate consequence, Nitish revealed at the JD (U) national executive meeting that, given his party’s 43 seats compared to the BJP’s 74 in the recent assembly elections, he had wished not to become the CM and was under “pressure” from the national and state high command of BJP who agreed to occupy the position, again.
“No, the reference to ‘pressure’ meant that he did not want to become a CM, but BJP told him that the party had decided that Nitish would be CM because the mandate the NDA had received was in his name,” SuMo said.
Regarding the confusion caused by the events in Arunachal, SuMo said that the “JD (U) people” have clarified that these “will have no impact” in Bihar. “We have no information about everything that happened in that state. Therefore, we will not comment on it, ”he said.
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