Chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar On Monday, he targeted his former ally BJP over Chirag Paswan’s involvement in its campaign for the by-elections to two assembly seats in the state.
The JD(U) leader sarcastically remarked that Paswan was doing the “right thing” by coming out in support of the BJP.
Asked by reporters about Paswan’s announcement the previous day, he said, “Everyone remembers what happened to us during the last assembly elections.”
The JD(U)’s tally in the 2020 state assembly elections fell to 43 from 71 five years ago. One of the major factors responsible for its defeat was the rebellion of Paswan, who then led the LJP founded by his late father Ram Vilas Paswan.
Promising to oust Kumar from power and help the BJP form its government, although she was contesting as an ally of the chief minister, Paswan fielded candidates in all the seats contested by the JD, including Many were rebels of the saffron party. You).
“I had such a long association with his father, I had supported him on important occasions,” Kumar said, indirectly dismissing Paswan’s repeated allegation that the chief minister had scolded his late father. was disrespected.
Kumar had proposed that Paswan become the chief minister when, in February 2005, the Bihar assembly election resulted in a hung House and the LJP won several seats that were enough to help the NDA form the government.
Paswan, who was then a minister in the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, however, stuck to the suggestion and President’s Rule was imposed in Bihar after the assembly was dissolved on the recommendation of the then Governor Buta Singh.
In the subsequent elections, the NDA got a majority and Kumar created history.
The longest-serving CM, who first broke his alliance with the BJP in 2013, and then reiterated in August this year that he had burnt his bridges with the saffron party, called the reunification in 2017 a “mistake”. There was a mistake). ,
Turning to young RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, who has returned as his deputy, seventy-year-old Kumar said, “We have to nurture them now” (now promote it).
The chief minister said injuries sustained in the recent accident were preventing him from campaigning for Gopalganj and Mokama by-elections, but he was getting feedback. RJD is going to win both the seats comfortably.
He also expressed grief over the collapse of a bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi in which at least 134 people were killed.
“Such an incident is unheard of. The government of that state should look into it,” the Bihar chief minister said.
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