The BJP on Friday sacked its recalcitrant Bihar MLC Tunnaji Pandey whose utterances towards Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have been placing a pressure on the tenuous relations between the 2 alliance companions. State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal issued Pandeys order of suspension, copies of which have been made obtainable to the media, a day after the legislator was issued a present trigger discover by disciplinary committee head Vinay Singh.
In his communication, Jaiswal has pulled up Pandey for having spoken “in violation of get together self-discipline”, without making a specific mention of Kumar, and referred to the show cause notice. “Despite this, you have again flouted party discipline by your speech which proves that you consider yourself above party guidelines. You are, hence, suspended from the party”, Jaiswal signed off.
The motion got here a day after Pandey insisted that he was stating a truth and, when requested concerning the get together discover, remarked “I’ll reply to it once I obtain the identical. At essentially the most, the get together can throw me out. I don’t depend upon the get together for working my family”. What must have annoyed the party more was the fact that Pandey made the remarks after meeting Osama, the son of former Siwan MP Mohd Shahabuddin, a dreaded gangster-turned- politician who died of COVID 19 recently.
Shahabuddin, a staunch loyalist of RJD supremo of Lalu Prasad, had remained at loggerheads with the BJP all through his life and in his heydays, cadre of the saffron party in Siwan used to be allegedly terrorised by his henchmen. Pandey had triggered the turn of events earlier this week when he attacked Nitish Kumar for alleged high-handedness and remarked that the mandate of last assembly polls was in favour of Lalus son Tejashwi Yadav, but “Nitish Kumar became the Chief Minister only because of changed circumstances”.
Pandeys remarks have been an apparent reference to the drubbing acquired by the JD(U), which ended up with far fewer seats than the BJP, which has been blamed totally on the sudden revolt by former NDA associate and Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan. Many within the JD(U) imagine that Paswan was appearing with the tacit assist of the BJP, which has been keen to achieve the higher hand within the Bihar NDA.
They level to the truth that of the almost 150 candidates fielded by the LJP, many have been BJP rebels. Kumar had supplied to step down after the polls holding that being the get together with the larger variety of seats, the BJP may have its personal Chief Minister.
BJP management, nonetheless, insisted that Kumar proceed for his fourth consecutive time period, since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had repeatedly acknowledged in public that the JD(U) chief, who had returned to NDA in 2017, breaking a short-lived partnership with the RJD, will occupy the seat of energy even when his get together didn’t win a larger variety of seats. Pandeys tenure within the state legislative council ends subsequent month.
Speculations are rife that he’s eyeing an entry into the RJD, which has ended up in opposition however retained its standing as the only largest get together within the meeting. The BJP MLC’s “amaryadit” (uncharitable) statement against the CM had stirred political cauldron in Bihar.
JD(U) and another NDA partner, Hindustani Awam Mocha (HAM) of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, had expressed strong displeasure and appealed to the BJP to take appropriate action. The main opposition RJD,however, had lent support to Pandey, saying he was reiterating the views of the people.
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