New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, one of many fundamental architects of the INDI alliance, broke away from the bloc and once more joined palms with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Opposition alliance members have criticized Nitish for his sudden exit, with Congress MP Jairam Ramesh noting that there have been no indications of such a rupture in ties.
Recalling that it was Nitish Kumar who known as on the assembly of the opposition events in Patna, Ramesh stated it’s a matter of remorse that he left the alliance on the final second and a blatant breach of belief.
“Nitish Kumar convened meeting in Patna with the participation of 18 parties. Meetings were held in Bengaluru, and Mumbai, with Nitish Kumar attended all these meetings without providing any indication of his intention to sever ties with the INDIA alliance. It is disheartening that he chose to depart from our alliance at the last moment. This complete breach of trust and the people of Bihar will respond to this betrayal in due course,” stated Congress MP Jairam Ramesh.
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Meanwhile, Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge additionally slammed Nitish Kumar’s and stated his transfer to separate from Mahagathbandhan and to affix the NDA was ‘pre-planned’ and accused the JD(U) Chief of preserving the INDIA bloc in darkish.
Speaking to ANI, the Congress President alleged that the JD(U) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ‘deliberate’ to interrupt the INDIA bloc as such choices can’t be taken in a rush.
“Such decisions can not be taken in a hurry…This shows that it was all pre-planned. To break the INDIA alliance they (BJP-JD(U)) planned all this… He (Nitish Kumar) kept us in the dark, he kept Lalu Yadav in the dark,” Kharge stated.
JDU chief Nitish Kumar’s transfer to finish his alliance with the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal to revive his tie-up with the BJP comes as an enormous setback to the INDIA bloc months earlier than it takes on the formidable BJP in Lok Sabha polls.
Nitish Kumar, after parting methods with the BJP in 2022, took on the initiative of uniting all opposition forces to collectively tackle Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling social gathering within the nationwide election.
Nitish Kumar took the oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for the ninth time in Raj Bhawan, Patna, switching sides once more, this time with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
It was for the second time in two years that Nitish Kumar had jumped the ship, his fifth crossover in somewhat over a decade, previous his ninth time as chief minister.
Two Deputy CMs from the BJP, Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, and 6 different ministers, together with Bijendra Prasad Yadav, Santosh Kumar Suman, Shrawan Kumar, and others, additionally took the oath in the present day.
