Named JD (U) working president, Sanjay Jha raises demand for Spl status for Bihar
During a meeting of its National Executive here, the party vowed to continue its fight for special status and an economic package for Bihar.
During a meeting of its National Executive here, the party vowed to continue its fight for special status and an economic package for Bihar.
Talking to the reporters in Delhi, where Tejashwi arrived on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan to meet his father and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi told, "It's a natural alliance, not a deal.
When his act was objected to by the fellow passengers, Mandal entered into a verbal duel with them.
In a sudden move, he quit as JD(U) president in favour of Ram Chandra Prasad Singh ~ or RCP as he is widely known ~ thereby marking out clear blue water between the coalition government he heads in Bihar and the JD(U) and BJP as distinct parties.
With this defection, the JDU now has just one MLA in the 60-member Arunachal assembly and the BJP now has 48 members.
Kishor, who was addressing his first press conference after his expulsion from JD(U), further announced a 'Baat Bihar Ki' programme to reach out to thousands of the state's youth voters.
Yesterday, after JD(U) national vice president Prashant Kishor’s tweet challenging Amit Shah on CAA, the Bihar Chief Minister and party chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday distanced himself from the leader.
'He can go wherever he wants. I wish him well,' Nitish Kumar told reporters on the question about Pavan Varma's letter.
The situation was defused at the police station where officials verified the identities of the researchers who were from a Lucknow-based research organization, engaged by a US-based Ph.D. scholar.
Former Janata Dal (United) minister Pavan K Varma, in a public letter to Kumar, had on Tuesday confessed that he is 'perplexed' with the decision of JD(U) to fight the Delhi election in alliance with the BJP.
