Patna: At a JD(U) meeting held at 1 Ane Marg, the chief minister’s official residence, Nitish Kumar on Tuesday remarked that the BJP has often insulted him and was trying to break his party. At around 3.40 pm, he went to the Raj Bhavan and later announced that he had resigned from his post as the Chief Minister of Bihar.
He went back to 1 Ane Marg, and waited for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav and other leaders of the Mahagathbandhan (a coalition of RJD, Congress and Left), according to JD(U) sources.
Tuesday’s developments marked the fall of the BJP-JD(U) government in Bihar, which was sworn in on 16 November 2020, and the return of the grand alliance, which led the state between 2015 and 2017 until Nitish BJP. I didn’t come back.
Celebrations were held at the residence of former Bihar CM Rabri Devi at 10 Circular Road as RJD workers marked the occasion by distributing sweets outside the gate.
Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav and other leaders of the Grand Alliance or Grand Alliance met Governor Fagu Chauhan soon after 6 pm and staked claim to form the new government. He submitted a list of 164 MLAs who supported Nitish Kumar.
When he came out of the Raj Bhavan, Nitish said that the governor had not given him a formal invitation to form the new government. “The decision is yet to be taken by the governor,” he said.
Earlier, the MLAs of the Grand Alliance gathered at 1 Ane Marg and declared Nitish the leader of the Grand Alliance.
BJP ousted from the state government targeted JD(U) and Nitish Kumar.
He said, “It was the BJP which took Nitish Kumar to political heights. Made him a Union Minister, made him the Chief Minister. Even being a junior partner made him the CM. He is a ‘Paltu Ram (turncoat)’ and has preferred to go to the irresponsible people for ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar,” said BJP MP Ashwini Kumar Choubey.
In the above meeting of JD(U) MLAs and MPs held at 1 Ane Marg in the early hours of Tuesday, the party had accused the BJP of “getting its ministers into its back by luring them to break the party with promises of money and ministerial berths”. Trying to stab. ,
“The BJP is trying to break our party. JD(U) MLA from Nalanda Kaushalendra Kumar said, “We cannot stay in alliance with a party that stabs us in the back.
According to sources present in the meeting, JD(U) national president Lalan Singh tagged former Union minister and party chief RCP Singh as a “Trojan horse being used by the BJP to break the party”.
Formerly considered close to Nitish Kumar, RCP Singh’s ties with the JD(U) soured when the party not nominated him to the Rajya Sabha after his term ended earlier this year.
Meanwhile, differences between the JD(U) and the BJP had been in the news for some time, and both were repeatedly resolve your grievances publicly against each other.
Around the same time that JD(U) leaders had gathered at Kumar’s residence, BJP ministers reached the residence of Deputy CM and BJP leader Tarkishore Prasad, as they await instructions from the party’s central leadership.
A BJP minister told ThePrint on condition of anonymity, “We were discussing whether we should wait to sack Nitish Kumar – which would send the message that Nitish is responsible for the collapse of the alliance – or resign. Give it.”
But the Bihar CM decided to resign instead.
Switching to a similar stance in 2017, Kumar took all his MLAs inside 1 Ane Marg, got them to denounce the alliance (then with RJD and Congress), and moved to the opposition camp – the BJP. .
Any settlement between the JD(U) and RJD seemed difficult at the time, but Kumar’s relations with former CM and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family are slowly recovering. Since then there has been speculation of a re-alignment. participated in An iftar party hosted by Lalu’s son Tejashwi earlier this year.
As soon as JD(U) MLAs entered 1 Ane Marg on Tuesday, they came to know about the agenda. “We will have no problem going with Tejashwi Yadav. Nitish Yes and Lalu Yes Both belong to Samajwadi block,” said JD(U) MLA Hari Narayan Singh.
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Tejashwi gave a passionate speech
Meanwhile, Tejashwi Yadav, who is likely to be the new deputy CM of Bihar, also held a meeting of RJD leaders at his residence on Tuesday.
According to an MLA present in the meeting, “Tejashwi said that BJP wants to eliminate regional parties. We are not ready to end. The BJP wanted to split the JD(U), the party with which it had an alliance. It is not a question of becoming a minister. It is a question of saving democracy.”
The MLA said that Tejashwi claimed that RJD leaders were getting constant threats from BJP leaders to help Nitish Kumar.
Sources present in the meeting also told that Congress leader Ajit Sharma arrived with the support of 19 Congress MLAs with Nitish’s signature. An RJD MLA said, “All the MLAs were asked to sign the petition supporting Nitish Kumar.
Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav had talked about a possible settlement between Nitish Kumar and RJD just after the Iftar party in April, but nothing concrete was done then.
According to party sources, there have been at least three one-on-one meetings between Tejashwi and Nitish to finalize alliance details and discuss ministry-sharing. It is also being speculated that, ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections, Nitish Kumar will hand over the post of Bihar CM to Tejashwi, while he himself will move to Delhi.
Both the parties have been more in line on issues like citizenship amendment act (CAA), caste census And special category status for Bihar.
death of a coalition
On Sunday, while talking about former JD(U) chief RCP Singh, Lalan Singh had alleged that the BJP had created a “chirag model” in 2020 to weaken Nitish Kumar – JD(U) and Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan had differences of opinion. The latter led the JD(U) to target seats in the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, reportedly in collusion with the BJP.
JD(U) last week issued Show cause notice against RCP Singh over acquisition of 58 plots by his family members in the last nine years, which was allegedly not mentioned in his Rajya Sabha election affidavit.
While RCP Singh said the transaction was up-and-coming, it was speculated that the show-cause notice was born out of the JD(U)’s outrage over his alleged closeness with the BJP.
The tenure of the current NDA alliance in Bihar was difficult as leaders and ministers of JD(U) and BJP often went public against each other. There were differences regarding CAA, population controlCaste census, special category status for Bihar, and other issues.
BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal often questioned Governance in the state, while Nitish Kumar had Fight Twice with Bihar speaker and BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha.
Relations between the two parties began to deteriorate after BJP leader and former Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi – a close aide of Nitish – sacked him. went out of state politics and nominated to Rajya Sabha in December 2020.
Earlier this month, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah Told Instead of complaining to the party MLAs and MPs in Bihar to resolve the problems and avoid unnecessary comments, which was seen as a move to smooth the party’s ties with the JD(U).
But it was too late.
A senior BJP leader said, “The BJP-JDU alliance did not work even at the ground level due to the bitterness between the two parties.”
This is the updated version of the report
(Edited by Polomi Banerjee)
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