BJP knew Nitish Kumar was leaving, however did not work out RJD angle

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NEW DELHI: BJP is learnt to have gotten a way from sure quarters that Nitish Kumar might leap the NDA ship but once more, however the celebration management couldn’t totally anticipate his plan to type an alliance with RJD, which was his principal goal of assault through the 2020 meeting polls as he highlighted corruption fees in opposition to Lalu Prasad and his household. He had damaged away from the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ over the difficulty of regulation and order.
Kumar had not solely pledged within the state meeting that he would die however by no means return to an alliance with RJD however had additionally campaigned vigorously in opposition to Lalu Prasad’s celebration. The variations between the 2 had grown to the extent that it it was Lalu who coined the time period “Paltu Ram” for Nitish.

Alternatively, BJP leaders most popular to confer with Nitish as “Susashan Babu” after the 2 events ran a profitable authorities within the state and the regulation and order state of affairs improved whereas they used the “jungle raj” plank to focus on RJD.
“Nitish is a snake. Simply identical to a snake sheds its pores and skin, so does Nitish each two years,” Lalu Prasad had tweeted in August 2017. This was circulated by BJP sympathisers on Tuesday when Kumar aligned with RJD as soon as once more.

The variations between BJP and JD(U) had develop into public throughout protests in opposition to the Agnipath scheme when homes and properties of saffron leaders, together with state president Sanjay Jaiswal and deputy chief minister Renu Devi, have been attacked.
Since then, BJP leaders had develop into extra aggressive with central leaders, together with Union residence minister Amit Shah and celebration president JP Nadda, visiting the state to broaden the celebration footprint, a transfer which appears to have compounded Nitish’s listing of complaints.

BJP’s grand celebration of the delivery anniversary of 1857 revolt hero Kunwar Singh in his native village in Arrah district, the place Amit Shah was current because the chief visitor and an enormous rally was organised, additionally irked Nitish.
The celebration’s largescale celebration of one of the vital celebrated icons of the state was in distinction with the state authorities’s easy celebrations that includes the chief minister in Patna.

BJP’s latest assembly of the celebration’s all morchas in Patna, through which Shah and Nadda have been current, additionally appears to have made Nitish restive because the Bihar CM had at all times been cautious of BJP’s enlargement plans within the state.