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NEW DELHI: Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said, “Rather than trying to split the Janata Dal (United) and weaken you, the BJP has made you in politics what you are.”
Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that at every available opportunity, the BJP had helped Kumar in building his political career.
“You came to us when the BJP was fighting Lalu Yadav on corruption issues… In 2005, your party was not ready to declare you the chief minister candidate in Bihar but we insisted and you were declared the chief minister candidate,” Prasad said.
Reminding Kumar of his on-off relationship, Prasad said that Nitish should recall why he broke the alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in 2017. There were corruption charges against Tejaswi Yadav and he was unable to answer them.
Talking about the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Prasad said that when Kumar left the NDA, he could win only two seats in 2014, but when he came back to the NDA, he won 16 seats in 2019. “To accommodate you in 2019, we denied tickets to many sitting MPs,” Prasad said.
He added that the people of Bihar are watching this betrayal by Kumar very carefully and will teach him a lesson.
After Kumar met the governor in the evening and submitted his resignation, the core group of the BJP met in Patna. Union ministers from Bihar Nityanand Rai, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Chaubey, former Union minister Prasad, Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal and others participated in the meeting.
Union minister Giriraj Singh accused Kumar of jumping the NDA to fulfil his Prime Ministerial ambitions. “He will never become Prime Minister,” Singh said.
Bihar BJP president Jaiswal said that the party will go to the people and win more than 35 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. He also claimed that the party would win the 2025 assembly polls with a two-thirds majority.
