Agnipath: RJD places JD-U in a spot

Express News Service

PATNA:  Bihar meeting’s ongoing monsoon session is prone to witness a battle of nerves amongst varied events over the Agnipath scheme as principal Opposition RJD has deliberate to convey a decision towards it within the House even because the ruling JD-U has been demanding a overview of the scheme launched by the BJP-led Centre.

RJD MLA Bhai Birendra mentioned his occasion would be certain that the decision was handed unanimously.
RJD’s plan to convey a decision towards the Agnipath scheme needs to be seen extra as a political ploy to nook the BJP and likewise put CM Nitish Kumar in a quandary because the JD-U has been persistently demanding a overview of it. It can be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the decision is accepted within the first place and ultimately put to vote, remarked an analyst.

Even because the Opposition is united of their demand for the rollback of the scheme, JD-U president and occasion MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh aka Lalan Singh demanded a overview of Agnipath scheme, triggering a spat between him and Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal.

Visibly anguished over the assault on the Agnipath scheme by its long-time ally JD-U, Jaiswal retorted by saying the previous ought to counsel what sort of overview it needed. It is but to see how successfully the BJP and the JD-U counter the Opposition’s assaults on varied points contained in the meeting once they have pulled out all of the stops to browbeat one another exterior the home.