No signs of Nitish Kumar joining NDA, Akhilesh Yadav said –
Kannauj: Samajwadi Party chief and India Bloc ally Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said there is “no sign” of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar being a key figure. Opposition alliance is returning to NDA. Speaking to reporters here, Yadav also expressed hope that Nitish would strengthen the India alliance formed to take on the BJP-led central government in the upcoming general elections. Yadav said, “There is no such indication. We hope that Nitish Kumar will not join NDA.
He will strengthen the India alliance.” In particular, the unity of the Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) appears to be in danger amid growing speculation that Nitish Kumar, a key figure in the block, may join forces to form a coalition to take on the BJP-led central government. -Parties can leave the opposition block. Apart from this, when Rohini Acharya, former Chief Minister of Bihar and daughter of RJD President Lalu, took a dig at RJD’s ruling ally JDU on Twitter, she wrote that the ‘Socialist Party’ (JDU) calls itself progressive, but its ideology changes with the changing winds. Varies with pattern.
A statement that created a rift within the ruling coalition. However, after a few hours all three posts of Lalu’s daughter were deleted. If Nitish changes sides, it will be the fourth time that he will change sides. RJD has 79 MLAs in the Bihar Assembly of 243; After this BJP’s 78; JDU has 45 seats, Congress 19 seats, CPI (ML) 12 seats, CPI (M) and CPI two seats each, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) four seats and AIMIM one seat. Also an independent MLA.
Amid talks of a deepening rift, RJD and JD(U) held separate meetings on Thursday, while BJP state president Samrat Chaudhary left for Delhi to hold discussions with top BJP leaders. Bharatiya Janata Party MP and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi, giving more importance to the possible entry of Nitish Kumar in NDA, on Friday said that the doors in politics are never closed “permanently”. “In yesterday’s meeting, strategies for the (upcoming) Lok Sabha elections were discussed. But as far as Nitish Kumar and JDU are concerned, doors in politics are never closed permanently.
Now our central leadership will decide whether the doors will open or not,” Sushil Modi told reporters before returning to Patna. In the 2015 assembly elections, Nitish Kumar defeated BJP in alliance with RJD. However, after two years he left Lalu Yadav’s party and joined the NDA. Sushil Modi was the Deputy Chief Minister in NDA. Before forming the government in Bihar in 2022, Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar broke ties with ally BJP and again entered into partnership with RJD and Congress.
Armed with the support of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance), Kumar quit the BJP in August 2022 and ousted the party from power.
