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Patna,(BiharTimes): The Janata Dal (United) seems to be confused over how to use former President A P J Abdul Kalam’s forthcoming book “Turning Point And Journey Through Challenges” for its own end.
While its spokesman, Neeraj Kumar, on Saturday chose to ask the UPA and RJD to apologise to former President for “pressurizing” him to sign on dotted lines on a cabinet decision recommending dissolution of the state legislative Assembly constituted after February 2005 Assembly polls in Bihar his party chief Sharad Yadav chose to speak on some other issue and did not attach much importance to book itself. |
Sharad, who is also National Democratic Alliance (NDA) convenor, on the other hand, chose to speak on the Sonia Gandhi episode, which has also been discussed in the book. He said had Kalam spoken this in 2004, it would have carried a different level of moral force. The remarks do not carry that kind of moral force now as his revelation came eight years after the event had played out. The relevance it had at that time does not exist today, he added.
But Neeraj told reporters in Patna that both the UPA government and the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad should realize their mistakes and apologise to Kalam for forcing him to sign on the Centre’s decision to dissolve the legislative Assembly.
It needs to be recalled that the Feb 2005 election gave a fractured verdict while it was in Nov 2005 poll that Nitish Kumar led NDA got comfortable majority.
Neeraj said that it was a matter of concern that Kalam stood embarrassed following the Supreme Court's observations while setting aside dissolution of the state Assembly constituted after 2005 Assembly polls.
It remained a mystery as to why Janata Dal (United) chose Neeraj Kumar to speak on the issue of national importance while Sharad diluted the whole issue sitting in New Delhi. Has Shivanand Tiwary, the national spokesman of the party, still not been allowed to speak much? Or is there something else?
But there is another opinion too. When all these were going on in 2005 Shivanand Tiwary was strongly with the Rashtriya Janata Dal. As the spokesman of that party he was supporting Lalu Yadav as ferociously then as he used to do in case of Nitish Kumar now.
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