'NITISH DID NOT GET THE RESPECT HE DESERVED FROM OPPOSITION ALLIANCE'

Nitish Kumar has been talking to the BJP for over a month.

The 17-month-old alliance between the Nitish Kumarled Janata Dal United (JDU) and Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was headed for a breakdown on Saturday evening, in what is going to be the culmination of a week-long political drama in the state, with the Bharatiya Janata Party joining hands with Kumar to come back to power in the state. The elections in the state are scheduled for November 2025.

It is pertinent to mention that a majority of BJP’s state leaders and workers are against joining hands with Nitish Kumar. They have been maintaining that if joining hands with Kumar is inevitable then it should only happen if Kumar agrees to have a BJP Chief Minister.

A meet of senior state BJP leaders such as Sushil Modi, Nityanand Rai, Samrat Chowdhury, Mangal Pandey, elected MLAs and senior functionaries which started around 5.30 p.m. on Saturday ended at 8 p.m. During this meeting, the participants were asked not to speak to the media and wait for Sunday about the political decisions on whether the BJP would join hands with JDU or not. Sources present in the meeting told The Sunday Guardian said that discussions

were taking place between party president J.P. Nadda and Nitish Kumar on the modalities, including the issue of Chief Minister and the Deputy CMs and the number of seats that JDU would get in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

However, it can be stated with certainty that the alliance between JDU and RJD is over and the only question remains to be discussed is whether Kumar will dissolve the Assembly or will accept the conditions that the BJP is putting across.