Mumbai: Attacking Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for dumping the Mahagathbandhan and switching his aspect to the NDA, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Sunday mentioned that the general public will educate a lesson to the JD (U) chief sooner or later. Speaking to ANI, Pawar, nonetheless, mentioned that he has no thought why Nitish Kumar took the step to forge his alliance with the NDA.
“On the contrary, he was playing a role against the BJP. I don’t know what happened suddenly, but the public will definitely teach him a lesson for his role in the future…” he mentioned. Pawar, the chief of the NCP, a celebration amongst others within the INDIA bloc, mentioned that such a state of affairs had by no means been seen earlier than in such a brief time period.
“Whatever happened in Patna, such a situation was never seen before in such a short period of time…I remember it was Nitish Kumar who had called all the non-BJP parties to Patna…His role was also similar but what happened in the last 10-15 days that he left this ideology and today he joined BJP and formed the government…In the last 10 days, it did not seem that he would take such a step,” Pawar added.
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 a large 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 celebration within the nationwide election.
On Sunday, 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 just a little 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 at this time.
Nitish Kumar cited the state of affairs being “not right” below the Mahagathbandhan alliance as his purpose for quitting. He mentioned that he has been receiving strategies from all over the place, together with his celebration staff, and he listened to all of them to come back to this determination.
“I have resigned as the CM today and have asked the Governor to put an end to this government. Party leaders were giving me advice. I heard what they said and have resigned. The situation was not good. So, we have broken ties,” Nitish Kumar informed reporters exterior the Raj Bhavan.
Kumar’s determination to align with the BJP led to accusations of him being a “chameleon” and “Paltu Ram” for his frequent shifts in political allegiance.
Tejashwi Yadav, former deputy and RJD chief predicted that JD(U) is on the verge of being “finished” within the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Calling Nitish Kumar a ‘drained CM’, Yadav mentioned, “Khel abhi shuru hua hai, khel abhi baki hain. What I say, I do…I can give you in writing that the JDU party will be finished in 2024. The public is with us…”
The BJP, nonetheless, mentioned its alliance with Kumar was “natural” and asserted that the “double engine government” of the NDA would profit Bihar. Party leaders additionally claimed that the INDIA bloc would quickly disintegrate because the alliance has “no ideological basis”.
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge has additionally mentioned that Kumar’s transfer to separate from Mahagathbandhan and to hitch the NDA was ‘pre-planned’ and accused the JD(U) Chief of retaining the INDIA bloc at midnight.
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 mentioned.Â
