File photo of Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar greeting BJP President JP Nadda in Patna. (PTI photo)
BJP Chairman JP Nadda is understood to have secured help to resolve the differences that have arisen lately between the JD (U) and the LJP due to the belligerent stance taken by the latter’s young Chairman, Chirag Paswan.
- PTI
- Last update: September 12, 2020 6:23 PM IST
Patna: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) started preparing for the Bihar Assembly elections to be held later this year with JD (U) supreme and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar meeting with BJP Chairman JP Nadda, to discuss seating arrangements.
Nadda was accompanied by Vice Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, the party’s national secretary general and state official Bhupendra Yadav, and the chairman of the state unit Sanjay Jaiswal.
The JD (U) National Chairman, who was accompanied by key party aide Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan, warmly welcomed Nadda, who hails from Himachal Pradesh but was born and raised in Patna. At the meeting, held at the CM residence, it is understood that the leaders of the two parties discussed the key issue of sharing seats between alliance partners in the NDA, which also includes Ram Vilas’ Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). Paswan.
It is also understood that the BJP leadership assured Kumar that it will step in and settle the differences that have arisen lately between the JD (U) and the LJP due to the belligerent stance taken by the latter’s young chairman, Chirag Paswan. It is likely that in the next few days the calendar of elections to the assembly in the state will be announced. The Electoral Commission has indicated that it would like to conclude the exercise before the term of the current Chamber ends on November 29.
The night before, at a press conference here, the BJP election in charge of the Bihar assembly, Devendra Fadnavis, had tried to downplay the acrimony between JD (U) and LJP and commented that “no one is going to leave the NDA, although many can join us. ” The former Chief Minister of Maharashtra also attributed the marked differences that have emerged between the two parties to “diverse ideologies, a reason why we are all separate political parties, albeit united in purpose.”
Nadda, who arrived here the night before on a two-day tour of Bihar, began her day by offering prayers at the famous Patan Devi temple in the old city, after which the capital of Bihar is named. Following the meeting with the Chief Minister, your itinerary includes the launch of “Atmanirbhar Bihar Abhiyan” at the party’s state headquarters, followed by a visit to the Muzaffarpur district, where you will interact with female lychee farmers and growers in the village that leads. named after the legendary “Kisan Chachi”. “whose efforts to promote entrepreneurship among rural women have earned her a Padma Award.
Thereafter, Nadda is scheduled to visit Darbhanga and interact with farmers involved in the fishing and production of makhana (fox nuts), which are found in abundance in the Mithila region of northern Bihar.
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