Patna:

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pre-empted makes an attempt of RJD president Lalu Prasad to “humiliate” allies forward of Lok Sabha polls by calling off the alliance, a senior JD(U) chief claimed on Wednesday.

Neeraj Kumar, MLC and chief spokesperson of the JD(U) made the declare referring to the RJD driving roughshod over the Congress.

“The Congress has been a reliable ally of the RJD, although the alliance has brought about it to lose its personal vote share over time. The one time the Congress noticed an increase in its vote share in latest instances was within the 2015 Bihar Meeting polls once we too have been a part of that alliance,” stated the chief of the JD(U) headed by Nitish Kumar.

RJD president Lalu Prasad has unilaterally given social gathering tickets to candidates for a couple of dozen seats in Bihar, leaving the Congress just about blindsided and hoping in opposition to hope that the domineering ally will handle its considerations.

Neeraj Kumar requested, “What kind of alliance do the RJD and the Congress have that the previous is making a gift of social gathering tickets to individuals at will, paying scant regard to the pursuits of the latter?” Among the many seats for which Mr Prasad has given tickets is Aurangabad, the place Congress needed to area former MP Nikhil Kumar.

Moreover, the RJD is known to have promised social gathering ticket to JD(U) turncoat Bima Bharti from Purnea, a seat from which former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav is alleged to have gotten assurance of Congress ticket when he merged his Jan Adhikar Occasion final week.

Neeraj Kumar stated, “It was not for nothing that our chief Nitish Kumar had been searching for early seat-sharing within the INDIA bloc. He had sensed the RJD’s plans to humiliate allies. So he taught them a lesson”.

The allusion was to Mr Kumar’s exit from the opposition alliance that robbed RJD of energy and stripped Tejashwi Yadav, son and inheritor obvious of Lalu Prasad, of the deputy chief minister’s submit.

Fishing in troubled waters, the JD(U) chief added: “It’s now for the Congress to indicate that it has backbone. Rahul Gandhi has undertaken a country-wide padayatra, turning into the primary chief to have achieved so for the reason that Nineteen Nineties”.

He identified that within the final Lok Sabha polls, it was the Congress that managed to win a seat in Bihar whereas the RJD, regardless of seeming formidable, drew a clean.

“Hopefully, the RJD shall be taught a lesson by its ally within the Lok Sabha polls. Even when that doesn’t occur, the social gathering shall be taught a lesson by the individuals of Bihar,” the MLC stated.

In the meantime, leaders of the RJD and the Congress maintained that seat-sharing shall be “introduced in an amicable trend”, pointing to the joint assertion by Tejashwi Yadav and BPCC president Akhilesh Prasad Singh in Delhi on Tuesday once they had stated the candidates shall be formally declared upon their return to Patna.

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