The Janata Dal (United) on Saturday passed a resolution to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) during the party\u2019s national executive meeting chaired by leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.<\/p>\n
The political move that makes the ruling party in Bihar officially an ally of the NDA at the Centre comes weeks after Nitish broke ties with the Grand Alliance parties – Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal – in the state and re-formed the government in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said that senior leader Sharad Yadav has every right to put forward his points of disagreement with the alliance, but he shouldn\u2019t attend Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav\u2019s programme as it will break their trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cSharad Yadav is invited for the JD(U) national executive meet and he can sort out differences, but he shouldn\u2019t attend Lalu Yadav\u2019s programme. We will lose our faith in him, if he does so. He is one of the founders of the party, therefore, he can put forward his views in the meeting,\u201d Tyagi told the media here.<\/p>\n
He added that although Sharad Yadav does not agree with party\u2019s decisions, there is no rift in the party.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, ahead of the national executive committee meeting of the JD(U), the two factions of the party – one led by Nitish Kumar and the other by former party president Sharad Yadav – put up striking publicity material in Patna, leading up to a poster war in the city.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, both factions claim to be the \u201creal JD(U)\u201d.<\/p>\n
The poster put up by Sharad Yadav\u2019s faction showcased him with \u201cJan Adalat ka Faisla – Mahagathbandhan jari hai (decision of the people\u2019s court – the grand alliance continues)\u201d written on it.<\/p>\n
The other has Nitish with party leaders – state JD(U) chief Basistha Narayan Singh, RCP Singh and others. \u201cNitish Kumar hi zindabad (hail only Nitish Kumar),\u201d said the poster.<\/p>\n
Sharad Yadav was sacked as JD(U)\u2019s Rajya Sabha leader when he made his chagrin against Nitish Kumar snapping ties with the Lalu Yadav-led RJD and forging an alliance with the BJP, to form the next government in Bihar, quite evident.<\/p>\n
Yadav also asserted that Nitish\u2019s flip-flop, as far as his views on the BJP were concerned, was an insult to the 2015 mandate of the people given to the \u201cMahagathbandhan\u201d and that he was still a part of the grand alliance in the state.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath, the Nitish-led JD(U) even suspended 21 party leaders for participating in Yadav\u2019s recent three-day Jan Samwad Yatra, wherein he interacted with the people of the state, indicative of a widening rift in the party.<\/p>\n
Lalu Yadav had also come out in support of Sharad Yadav, leading up to the Nitish faction, reportedly, warning the latter that if he attended the August 27 \u201cDesh Bachao, BJP Bhagao\u201d rally of the former, he would be sacked from the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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