With less than fifteen days to go the Electoral CommissionThe announcement of the Bihar polls, the gap between BJP’s allies, JD (U) and LJP, continues to widen.
After JD (U) ‘s public statement that he did not want to have any trucks with the Union minister Ram Vilas PaswanThe LJP team on Wednesday retaliated along the same lines and claimed that it would be better off without being in CM. Nitish kumarthe company. Following a meeting of their parliamentary party, LJP sources said they counted only the BJP as an ally and threatened that the party might even run candidates against JD (U).
The war of words comes in the context of indications that JD (U) has washed his hands of LJP, taking the stand that he would leave half of the 243 seats for BJP and it was for the saffron team to accommodate LJP inside of your quota. Although he is a junior partner, LJP is also unfazed by a fight. Sources said that the party chief Chirag Paswan it was known to have suggested to the head of BJP JP Nadda that the saffron team should insist on contesting more seats instead of insisting on a JD (U) split at 50:50.
It also emerged that Paswan wrote to Prime Minister Modi informing him of LJP’s latest assessment that Kumar no longer had sufficient support to be the face of CM of the NDA.
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