New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday firmly committed his previous switch to his party colleagues from the BJP -led NDA for the future of the alliance.
Giving credit to the BJP for the increase in power, Nitish said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made him the Chief Minister for the first time.
Nitish said, “I am always going to stay here. My party already let me go here and two times, but it is not going to happen again. Who made me CM? This heavenly Atal Bihari Vajpayee was.”
A few days after his comment, he convicted his close aide, Rajiv Ranjan alias Lallan Singh for a break-up with BJP, accused Kesar Party of trying to divide JD (U). Nitish’s confession came to a rally in Madhubani in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“We were together since the beginning. He was a partner of my party, sitting here, who had to wander,” the JD (U) supremo said pointing to Lallan Singh.
He said, “We (RJD) fought them together. He (Lallan) knows it well. He has been in the party for a long time and even serves as its president. He too, finally, felt that he (RJD) was for some mischief,” he said.
Lallan was then the national president of JD (U), and he had left the post exactly a month before the two leaders had helped Kumar suddenly out of India block.
There was speculation that Lallan was designed to resign due to the notion that he had become very close to RJD under the leadership of Kumar’s long -time rival, Lalu Prasad Yadav.
The JD (U) and BJP alliance is in the 1990s. This first broke over disagreement about PM Modi’s height in 2013, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat as the BJP Prime Minister’s candidate.
Kumar later tied up with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, but the alliance lasted only till 2017, when he returned to NDA Guna.
The alliance continued until 2022, when Kumar once again joined hands with the RJD -led Mahagatdanan, accused of defeating the BJP and trying to divide his party.
However, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year, Nitish returned to the NDA, leaving India’s block that he had helped to unite the parties against the BJP.
