Patna,(BiharTimes): Though the Bharatiya Janata Party is being accused of fanning the infighting in the Janata Dal (United) it is itself in trouble over extending support to the rebels.

It is being asked within the party circle as to how can it now back the same Sabir Ali, who was thrown out of the party a day after his entry into the BJP with much fanfare in the last week of March. Sabir Ali was then accused of having a close link with D-company. 

Criticizing the party’s decision its vice president, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, had then teasingly said that the party should now take Dawood Ibrahim too into its fold. The RSS also took a strong exception to Sabir’s entry. Now the same BJP is openly siding with him and many of the party MLAs have even signed on his nomination papers. “How can the party adopt two stands. If Sabir is really a smuggler and a Dawood’s man he should not be supported. If he is not than he should not have been thrown out of the party in March itself,” asked a political observer adding that it would amount to indulging in “unprincipled politics”.

Similarly the leader of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, a BJP ally, Arun Kumar, is a bit upset over the manner in which some BJP MLAs are openly supporting the candidature of Anil Kumar Sharma of Amarpalli Group. The latter contested on Janata Dal (United) ticket from Jehanabad, but lost to Arun Kumar. 

Anil was then close to Nitish Kumar, but what transpired later could not be known. Now he is an Independent candidate for the Rajya Sabha and is getting support of the BJP and rebel JD(U) legislators. 

What Arun fears is that once elected to the Rajya Sabha he may consolidate his position in Jehanabad too and may pose a challenge to Arun in future election. With a big money power Anil has the ability to do so. How can the BJP then support him, Arun’s supporters ask.

It would not be too easy for the BJP to actually back the anti-Nitish camp of Janata Dal (United), which on Thursday received another setback as one of the MLAs, Daud Ali, announcing that he would be supporting the party’s candidate notwithstanding the fact that Sabir Ali is like his brother. 

Only last week the JD(U) spokesman, Neeraj Kumar, MLC, who was amongthe first to revolt, chose to return to the Nitish’s fold.