Image Source : PTI File picture of LJP Chief Chirag Paswan.
More than 200 mid-level and lower-rung leaders of Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party joined the JD(U) in Bihar on Thursday.
A rattled LJP, which has been taking satisfaction in having weakened the JD(U) within the meeting election, lashed out on the deserters whom it sought to dismiss as traitors.
JD(U) nationwide president RCP Singh introduced at a press convention the induction of 208 leaders from the LJP.
Some of them held state-level posts within the social gathering, based by late Ram Vilas Paswan and now headed by his son.
Most notable among the many turncoats is former state normal secretary Keshav Singh who has been in revolt towards Chirag Paswan and predicting the social gathering’s collapse for a while.
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Shortly afterwards, a press convention was hurriedly convened by the LJP which was addressed by social gathering MP Chandan Kumar Singh and former MLA Raju Tiwari.
“These so-called leaders are traitors who had helped the JD(U) in the assembly elections and betrayed our party’s agenda of Bihar First, Bihari First,” they stated indignantly.
Relations had begun to bitter between the JD(U) and the LJP final yr when Chirag Paswan had began criticising Nitish Kumar for his authorities’s dealing with of COVID-19 and the migrant disaster thrown up by the lockdown.
Ahead of the elections, he pulled out of the NDA, vowing to dislodge Nitish Kumar from energy however serving to the BJP type the subsequent authorities. The LJP queered the pitch for the JD(U) by fielding its candidates, a lot of them rebels from the BJP, towards the chief minister’s social gathering.
It, nonetheless, got here a cropper and managed to win just one seat. One of the outstanding BJP rebels fielded by it, Rameshwar Chaurasia, give up the social gathering on Wednesday.
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