Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 23
Putting an end to speculation and drawing the line for NDA's warring Bihar partners LJP and JD(U), the BJP chief, JP Nadda, today said the party-led coalition would contest the Assembly elections as one force with CM Nitish Kumar as the face of the alliance.
Nadda's remarks, at a virtual meet of the Bihar BJP, come amid a war of words between the Janata Dal (U) and the Chirag Paswan-headed Lok Janshakti Party. Chirag has been targeting Nitish over his handling of the migrant crisis, Covid pandemic and floods. However, Nadda today not only praised the Bihar Government's handling of the pandemic and floods, but also made it clear that the polls would be fought under Nitish.
It will be the first time that the three parties will be contesting together. As allies in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections , they won all but one of 40 seats
Nadda was joined by several Union ministers elected from Bihar in the meeting. Calling the Opposition in the state a "spent force", Nadda said: "It has neither ideology nor vision nor any spirit to serve people, and it can't rise above petty politics."
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