Senior JD(U) chief Rajiv Ranjan Singh on Sunday puzzled whether or not birthday birthday celebration supremo Nitish Kumar has begged the BJP for realignment, after Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated the birthday birthday celebration`s doorways have been “close for all time” for the Bihar leader minister. Mr Shah, all through his go to to the kingdom on Saturday, claimed that Nitish Kumar has joined fingers with the RJD and the Congress, after ditching the BJP, to realize his Prime Ministerial ambitions, whilst declaring that the BJP’s doorways are close for all time for him.
“Has Nitish Kumar begged the BJP for realignment? Amit Shah must don’t forget that the Chief Minister lower back to the NDA in 2017 handiest after being persuaded via way of means of the PM to do so,” Mr Singh, the JD(U) country wide president, stated.
Wondering why the Union domestic minister had to mention the “equal element once more and once more”, every other JD(U) chief, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, puzzled whether or not it became due to the fact the BJP has began to “experience the warmth of Nitish Kumar and the JD(U) now no longer being via way of means of their side”.
“Nitish ji has in no way expressed his aim to go back to the NDA, so such rhetoric is pointless. We might have favored if Shah might have spoken some thing on what his authorities has done, and proposes to do in future, for Bihar,” Mr Chaudhary, the kingdom finance minister, stated.
The BJP and Kumar first entered into an alliance manner lower back withinside the Nineties while the latter’s outfit became referred to as Samata Party. The alliance endured for extra than a decade until it first snapped in 2013 while Kumar pulled out of the NDA following variations over his then Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi occupying the country wide centre-stage.
Mr Kumar and the BJP fought bitterly for some extra years till a dramatic realignment in 2017 while it became accused of “attaining strength via lower back door” via way of means of the RJD, that is now charged with the equal via way of means of the BJP. Mr Chaudhary, certainly considered one among Mr Kumar’s trouble-shooters, claimed Mr Shah’s words “without a doubt betrayed the exasperation BJP people withinside the kingdom need to be feeling”.
“He accused Nitish Kumar of getting agreed to present away the Chief Minister’s chair to Tejashwi Yadav and withinside the equal breath alleged that Nitish ji will cheat Lalu ji (RJD supremo and Tejashwi’s father). It does now no longer upload up,” he stated.
Mr Singh, additionally referred to as Lalan, stated, “The Union authorities has cheated the humans withinside the call of welfare schemes consisting of Ujjwala Bharat and Ayushman Bharat. The Centre has promoted crony capitalism as obvious in its reluctance to get investigated the alleged fraud via way of means of the Adani Group. It does now no longer behove the BJP to talk of recent allies while it has precipitated lots of its former coalition companions to leave.” Similar sentiments have been expressed via way of means of former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha, had in a display of team spirit toward Kumar, observed the JD(U) in quitting the NDA remaining year.
“When Nitish Kumar has in no way stated that he desires to go back to the NDA, I do now no longer recognize what Amit Shah became seeking to show via way of means of urgent the point,” Mr Majhi stated. Incidentally, Mr Shah’s remark got here almost a month after Kumar had asserted that he might “decide on loss of life to a realignment with the BJP”.