Patna,(BiharTimes): For the third time within a week the former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday changed his statement on merger.

He said on Sunday (April 3) that merger was never discussed in the meeting of the leaders of LJP, RLSP and HAM last month. Instead he went on to accuse the mediapersons of putting words in his mouth.

Manjhi said politics is a game of possibilities and that he just told media the truth and what he felt.
It was only on April 1 that Manjhi had charged BJP with not taking its three NDA partners into confidence and said that the partners of the saffron party may merge together to chart out their own political agenda in Bihar and elsewhere because of its attitude.

He had then conceded that the BJP was a guardian party and that they are very much a part of NDA; yet he held the saffron party responsible for the lack of proper coordination among alliance partners.

Incidentally, when the LJP secretary general Satyanand Sharma on March 29 said that the three other constituents of the NDA have discussed merger, Manjhi, a day later, denied that any such talks were held in the meetings held among the leaders of LJP, RLSP and HAM.

LJP boss and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, RLSP leader and Union minister Upendra Kushwaha and HAM president Manjhi met at the farmhouse of HAM state president Brishen Patel in Vaishali on March 28 where they discussed at length the possible merger or alliance of the three parties to consolidate their position.