Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that there is no question of going back on the decision taken by their party on last Sunday. JD-U finally had taken a hard decision on alliance and snapped its 17 year old relation with BJP. The reactions from the Bihar Chief Minister came a day after Bihar’s ruling JD-U ended its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP after days of simmering tensions, marking a major split in the country’s main opposition grouping.
Kumar said in a press conference in Patna, “We were forced to snap ties with the BJP since its central leadership was not listening to our suggestions and ignoring us for the past one year.”
Slamming the BJP leadership he said, “The decision to end ties with the BJP was taken by the central leadership of the JD-U after much deliberations about its possible consequences. There is no question of going back on the decision now. We can’t reconcile with them now.
The Bihar Chief Minister expressed his displeasure over the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha campaign committee chief despite strong opposition from the JD-U.
Nitish Kumar however praise the work pattern and management of former prime minister and senior BJP leader AB Vajpayee managed the BJP-led coalition. In a bitter end to weeks of feuding, Nitish Kumar also asked Governor DY Patil to sack all the 11 BJP ministers in his government for not working and vowed to prove his majority in the assembly on June 19. JD-U president Sharad Yadav also announced that he was quitting as convenor of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Bureau Report
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