BJP wanted to make RCP Bihar’s Eknath Shinde: Nitish Kumar

The political uproar continues in Bihar, as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to make RCP Singh the Eknath Shinde of Bihar and isolate the Janata Dal-United (JDU) party.

The statement of the Chief Minister came during the national executive council meeting of (JDU) that was held here in Patna on Sunday. National President of the party Rajiv Ranjan Singh chaired the meeting. “The meeting of the National Council of Janata Dal-United was held under the chairmanship of the National President of the party, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Babu, in the Karpuri auditorium located in the Bihar State JDU office,” the party official said.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with a string of the party leaders participated in the meeting. BJP has delivered a big jolt to the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) in the northeast as five out of seven MLAs from Manipur joined hands with BJP on Friday.As per a statement issued by the Legislative Assembly Secretariat, the Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly was pleased to accept the merger of five JD(U) MLAs with the BJP under the tenth schedule of the Constitution.

These names included Kh. Joykishan Singh, Ngursanglur Sanate, Md. Achab Uddin, Thangjam Arunkumar and L.M. Khaute. Earlier today, Kumar said if opposition parties unitedly contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections then we will get immense success. “I’m only saying that if all opposition parties unitedly contest elections (2024 Lok Sabha elections) then we will get big success. I am not talking about any numbers,” CM Kumar said.Earlier, a bulk of the JDU MLAs joined the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh giving a nightmare to Nitish Kumar’s party.