Patna,(BiharTimes): The camp-followers of Narendra Modi in Bihar BJP are seriously suspecting that the leaders, who were aligned to the party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani and opposed to the present prime ministerial candidate are behind the move to rope in the Lok Janshakti Party into the National Democratic Alliance fold.

What they allege is that they are out to sabotage the whole move to make Modi the prime minister. After the deal with the LJP was signed on Thursday this camp has become much more restive.

Party national vice president Dr C P Thakur, former ministers Ashwani Kumar Choubey and Giriraj Singh, others like Harendra Pratap were from the very beginning championing the cause of Narendra Modi.

In contrast the camp led by the former deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, state party chief Mangal Pandey, the leader of opposition in the state Assembly, Nand Kishore Yadav, Rajya Sabha MP Ravi Shankar Prasad etc are instrumental in having a pact with LJP.

“SuMo was till the end seeing prime ministerial material in Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. So he is among those responsible for party’s alignment with Ram Vilas Paswan. He was always with the Advani faction and are perhaps trying to sabotage the whole process of making NaMo the prime minister,” said one close to the pro-Narendra Modi faction in Bihar.

Many party MLAs and even deputy speaker of the state Assembly, Amrendra Pratap Singh, came out openly against the deal. Reports coming from seven constituencies from where LJP would contest suggest that the BJP workers are demoralized and disillusioned lot. In some places they have even openly resoloved not to campaign for the LJP’s candidate in respective constituencies.

They are not prepared to buy the argument that Paswan was earlier in NDA as he was the one who quit the Vajpayee cabinet after the Gujarat riots. Not only that in the last 12 years he had left no opportunity to criticize Modi, they say.