Patna,(BiharTimes): Both chief minister Nitish Kumar and the BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav refuted reports of JD(U) and BJP again joining hands ahead of the Assembly election later this year.
The denial came after rumours started doing the rounds in the political circle in Bihar that RSS leaders, in a meeting with the BJP bigwigs in New Delhi on Monday, advised the saffron party to restore relationship with the Janata Dal (United) with which it had shared power for more than seven and a half years in Bihar.
Media reports from New Delhi suggested that the RSS is concerned about the growing erosion in the BJP’s support base in Bihar as well as Uttar Pradesh––the Assembly election is due in the latter in 2017.
The Sangh leadership urged the BJP that if nothing is done to counter the perception created about the land acquisition policy of the Narendra Modi government the saffron party may have to pay a heavy pricce.But Nitish told the mediapersons in Patna on Tuesday that he had no knowledge whatsoever of any such news. In fact there is no scope left for it, he added.
Other JD(U) leaders, like spokesman Ajay Alok, too denied any such possibility. They said that these rumours are being spread by the BJP to test the political waters in Bihar. It shows how panicky the RSS is about the BJP’s fate in Bihar and UP.
Ajay Alok asked why not the Sangh Parivar is denying this report.The JD(U) leaders are of the view that the BJP propaganda machinery is unnecessarily spreading canards that Nitish is going soft towards the saffron party as RJD is not very much inclined towards the ruling party in Bihar, when the truth is that the problem is with the Sangh Parivar itself.
However, Nand Kishore Yadav said that his party would in no way join hands with the Janata Dal (United) and said that all these reports are speculative.Political observers are of the view that there is no denying the fact that in the recent weeks both the JD(U) and BJP are losing their surefootedness. The ruling party in Bihar is a bit rattled by the repeated attacks by former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, who drew sizeable crowds in Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Munger and Bhagalpur. At the same time RJD chief Lalu Yadav’s subtle criticism of the Nitish Kumar government on mass copying surprised the JD(U) rank and file. The party can not take RJD’s support for granted.
On the other hand there is growing realization in the Sangh Parivar that prime minister Narendra Modi is fast losing his magical touch. After the Delhi debacle everything seems to be going wrong for the BJP, even though there is hardly any big opposition from the Congress.
