Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar
LJP’s Chirag Paswan, who has said his party’s alliance is with BJP and not JD (U), has been repeatedly attacking Nitish Kumar for a variety of issues, from not properly addressing the migrant worker issue to not give jobs to Dalits. assassinated during the last 15 years of JD (U).
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Saying Nitish Kumar was not a capable leader went against the collective wisdom of Modi-Shah-Nadda, JD (U) KC senior leader Tyagi told News18 in response to repeated attacks on Bihar CM by the head of LJP, Chirag Paswan.
LJP’s Chirag Paswan, who has said his party’s alliance is with BJP and not JD (U), has been repeatedly attacking Nitish Kumar for a variety of issues, from not properly addressing the migrant worker issue to not give jobs to Dalits. assassinated during the last 15 years of JD (U).
On Monday, Paswan chaired a meeting of his parliamentary board to decide whether his party would accept the leadership of Nitish Kumar and be part of the NDA for the next assembly elections in Bihar.
“Nitishji has been publicly declared the leader of the NDA in Bihar by none other than Amit Shahji, Narendra Modiji and JP Naddaji. If a party or group of people do not agree with Nitishji’s leadership, they go against the collective leadership of the BJP, “Tyagi told News18.
Responding to the barbs directed at his party by Paswan, who has said that his party is in alliance with BJP not JD (U), Tyagi said that the BJP-JD (U) alliance predates many other alliances united by the two. parties.
“Our alliance with BJP has been in place since Atalji’s time. George Fernandes, as coordinator, chaired the alliance that came together in 1998,” Tyagi said.
On the other hand, he added, JD (U) has not been in direct alliance with the LJP since 1998. “Every election that we have fought since then, in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2015, we have fought with BJP not with LJP. . Yes, in the last Lok Sabha polls we were in alliance with the LJP by virtue of being in alliance with the BJP, but that’s what the history of our political alliance says, “Tyagi said.
He said that if there were problems within the gathbandhan, those could be discussed in party forums behind closed doors, but to speak openly against the declared leader of the NDA was to give the opposition ammunition.
“If you continue to speak out against Nitishji, RJD could say tomorrow that if their own alliance partners cannot accept them, how will Bihar accept them? Then it makes no sense to give them ammunition. At election time it makes sense to accept leadership trusted and accepted by Nitish Kumarji, “added Tyagi.
Various reasons have been attributed to Chirag Paswan’s growing belligerence towards Nitish Kumar, with whom Paswan, by his own admission, has not spoken in almost a year. Some say that Paswan is being used by the BJP as a counterweight. Others say that Paswan has become ambitious because he sees himself as the next Chief Minister of the state. And there’s also the issue of seat sharing, with LJP claiming 143 out of 243 seats.
In the 2015 assembly elections, the LJP won only 2 seats, although all six of its candidates in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections managed to be elected to Parliament. The LJP has been requesting seats based on their performance in the last general election, although it has reportedly been told that seats will be awarded based on performance in the last assembly elections.
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