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The Lok Janshakti Party at a gathering of its Parliamentary Board has determined to contest by itself within the upcoming Bihar Assembly ballot. The decision, nonetheless, doesn’t mar its political ties with the BJP with the occasion saying it won’t contest towards any BJP candidate and can assist the latter in a post-poll situation.
In an official assertion launched after the Parliamentary Board assembly chaired by occasion President Chirag Paswan, the occasion mentioned that at a nationwide stage the occasion has sturdy ties with the BJP however on the State stage, due to ideological variations with the JD(U), it has determined to go it alone.
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The Hindu had reported on October 2 that the LJP would contest outside the alliance to mop up pro-BJP and anti-Nitish Kumar votes. It deliberate to tackle the JD(U) with the slogan BJP se bair nahi, Nitish teri Khair nahi (No enmity with Modi however gained’t spare [Bihar Chief Minister and JD (U) President] Nitish Kumar).
The LJP in its official assertion additionally mentioned it should work in the direction of a BJP-LJP authorities in Bihar. “LJP believes that on the lines of the BJP government in the Centre, the Bihar government should also be led by BJP,” the assertion mentioned.
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In the seat sharing formulation beneath dialogue among the many NDA allies, the LJP was being supplied solely 25 odd seats.
An official announcement of seats and candidates is anticipated as soon as the BJP kinds out its seat association between the JD(U) and Jiten Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha.
The LJP’s decision is a end result of many months of a belligerent marketing campaign towards Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by occasion president Chirag Paswan. Mr. Paswan had accused the Bihar CM of taking ahead the saat nischey or “seven promises” agenda that was initially a part of the RJD-JD(U) authorities in 2015. Mr Paswan had began work on his occasion’s personal imaginative and prescient doc — “Bihar First, Bihari First” — and at Sunday’s assembly all leaders backed this doc. The occasion has determined to base its marketing campaign on this doc.
Mr Paswan had additionally accused Mr. Kumar of not listening to suggestions from alliance companions, going to the extent of claiming that for over a yr he has not spoken to Bihar CM because the latter refused to reply to any of his letters or reply to cellphone calls. The LJP chief was additionally severely crucial of the Nitish authorities’s dealing with of the migrant disaster in the course of the pandemic and slammed him for the crumbling infrastructure of the State after 15 years beneath him.
The occasion’s Parliamentary Board assembly was initially scheduled for Saturday night however had to be postponed as occasion patriarch Ram Vilas Paswan had to endure an emergency coronary heart surgical procedure. He has been admitted at a Delhi hospital for almost a month now. In a tweet, Mr. Chirag Paswan mentioned his father had undergone a coronary heart surgical procedure due to sudden developments on Saturday night, which pressured him to cancel the occasion assembly.
If wanted, the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution will endure one other operation in a number of weeks, he mentioned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and different senior leaders spoke to Mr Chirag Paswan concerning the well being of his father, LJP sources mentioned.
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