A ruling BJP legislator who stirred a hornet’s nest right here by calling Nitish Kumar a “chief minister of circumstances” has been served a show-cause notice by the saffron party. Bihar BJP disciplinary committee head Vinay Singh has slapped party MLC Tunna ji Pandey with the notice for his “amaryadit” (uncharitable) assertion in opposition to the CM.
“Pandey has been requested to furnish a reply inside 10 days explaining why the get together mustn’t provoke any motion in opposition to him,” Singh told PTI on Thursday. The saffron party MLC created unrest within the ruling NDA coalition when he said that RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav was the one who won people’s mandate for the post of the chief minister, but Nitish Kumar got the chair “circumstantially” — drawing flak from his get together management.
Unrepentant, he additional advised a TV channel that he want to know the place lies the error in stating that the “chief of the get together (JD-U) that got here third (in the polls) has turn into the chief minister”. Lalu Prasad’s RJD emerged as the number-one party in the 243-member state assembly during last years assembly elections, followed by the BJP and the JD(U).
Despite numbers stacked against the JD(U), the BJP fulfilled the promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah, and Kumar was made the CM. The BJP and the JD(U), along with Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and Mukesh Sahni’s Vikassheel Insaan Party, has formed a coalition government under Kumar.
Earlier, too, when Kumar had partnered with the RJD and the Congress to form the Grand Alliance government in 2015, Mohammad Shahabuddin, a former MP and a close aide of Lalu Prasad, had called Kumar a “circumstantial chief minister” as RJD had extra MLAs than the JD(U). Shahabuddin, a four-time RJD MP from Siwan who was serving jail time period in Tihar, just lately died of COVID-19.
The JD(U), taking robust exception to Pandey’s assertion, has requested the BJP to do the needful. “Kumar has been main the NDA for lengthy… There is a robust understanding between our get together and the BJP, which types the muse of the NDA coalition and has been functioning nicely. Earlier, we had extra numbers than the BJP, and now it’s in any other case, however all throughout the coalition,” JD(U) spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad acknowledged.
He also said that the responsibility to discipline its “badzuban” (bad-mouthed) chief lies with the BJP. Opposition RJD, nevertheless, lapped up the problem to sharpen its assault on Kumar.
“What improper did he (Pandey) say…he merely reiterated the opinion of individuals, who gave most seats to the RJD after a busy marketing campaign by Tejashwi Yadav,” party spokesman Mrityunjay Tiwary said.
Pointing out that HAM chief Jitan Ram Manjhi had also targeted the prime minister on the vaccination drive, questioning why Modi’s photograph has been on the inoculation certificate alone, and not on the death certificates of COVID-19 victims, Tiwary claimed that “discontentment is brewing in the ruling coalition”. “How many individuals will they take into process to cease them from talking the reality,” Tiwary added.
Speculation is rife that Lalu Prasad, who recently walked out of the jail after having got bail in the last of four fodder scam cases, might come to Patna around the time of his birthday on June 11, further heating up the political situation in the state.
Prasad, who is currently putting up in his Rajya Sabha MP daughter Misa Bharti’s Delhi residence, had recently held a video conference with RJD MLAs, and some of the party legislators even met him in the national capital.
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