The BJP may have just defused one crisis after party patriarch LK Advani agreed to withdraw his resignation, but now they could be headed straight into another. There are now indications that its Bihar ally, the Janata Dal (United), could sever ties with the party over the elevation of Narendra Modi to the position of the party’s 2014 campaign committee chief.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a meeting with senior JD(U) leaders on the issue, but refused to comment on the state of the alliance.
When asked by reporters about the alliance, Kumar cryptically stated,"Wait for some time".
The Chief Minister, whose party had threatened to cut ties with the BJP over the departure of Advani, said he wouldn’t like to comment on the party stalwart’s decision to take back his resignation.
"We are in the situation were in we are forced to be separated from the party," Jai Narayan Nishad of the JD(U) told ANI.
The party was reported to have given the go ahead to BJP president Rajnath Singh to pick Modi to head the BJP’s campaign and had said it was an internal matter of the BJP. However, ties between the Bihar Chief Minister and his counterpart have been tenuous at best.
Kumar is reported to have held talks with party president Sharad Yadav and other senior state JD(U) leaders till late last night weighing the pros and cons of remaining in the alliance.
He also held talks with senior ministers in his cabinet like Bijendra Yadav, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Narendra Singh, Brishen Patel, Shayam Rajak and Rajya Sabha member and a close confidante R C P Singh.
Some independent MLAs are also being contacted for enlisting support to the government in the event of BJP exiting the Nitish Kumar government.
JD(U) has 118 MLAs in 243-member Bihar assembly and needs the support of only four more MLAs to reach the majority figure of 122. There are six independent MLAs in the house at present, BJP 91, RJD 22 and LJP and CPI one each.
Source: FirstPost
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a meeting with senior JD(U) leaders on the issue, but refused to comment on the state of the alliance.
When asked by reporters about the alliance, Kumar cryptically stated,"Wait for some time".
The Chief Minister, whose party had threatened to cut ties with the BJP over the departure of Advani, said he wouldn’t like to comment on the party stalwart’s decision to take back his resignation.
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However, other JD(U) leaders were less than hopeful of the alliance in Bihar surviving. "Days of JD(U) ties with BJP are numbered," an unnamed senior JD(U) minister, who participated in the meeting, told PTI. Unnamed sources were also quoted as saying that the the announcement of the break up is expected 'any time'. |
"We are in the situation were in we are forced to be separated from the party," Jai Narayan Nishad of the JD(U) told ANI.
The party was reported to have given the go ahead to BJP president Rajnath Singh to pick Modi to head the BJP’s campaign and had said it was an internal matter of the BJP. However, ties between the Bihar Chief Minister and his counterpart have been tenuous at best.
Kumar is reported to have held talks with party president Sharad Yadav and other senior state JD(U) leaders till late last night weighing the pros and cons of remaining in the alliance.
He also held talks with senior ministers in his cabinet like Bijendra Yadav, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, Narendra Singh, Brishen Patel, Shayam Rajak and Rajya Sabha member and a close confidante R C P Singh.
Some independent MLAs are also being contacted for enlisting support to the government in the event of BJP exiting the Nitish Kumar government.
JD(U) has 118 MLAs in 243-member Bihar assembly and needs the support of only four more MLAs to reach the majority figure of 122. There are six independent MLAs in the house at present, BJP 91, RJD 22 and LJP and CPI one each.
Source: FirstPost
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