NEW DELHI: The JD(U) on Sunday blamed the Congress for the collapse of the INDIA bloc in Bihar, saying its leaders had been excited by strengthening their occasion and never the opposition grouping. Janata Dal (United) spokesperson Okay C Tyagi advised reporters {that a} “caucus” inside the Congress wished to seize the INDIA bloc management and its president Mallikarjun Kharge’s identify was proposed because the chairperson of the grouping as a part of the conspiracy.
The choice taken about Kharge on the INDIA bloc assembly earlier this month had shocked the JD(U), which believed that its president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar can be named because the convenor with out being saddled with any chairperson, its leaders had then mentioned. One other JD(U) spokesperson, Rajib Ranjan, was extra extreme in concentrating on the Congress, alleging that it first sunk itself by attempting to make an individual who lacks any high quality and harms the opposition alliance a main minister. The remark was a probable swipe at Rahul Gandhi.
Ranjan described the Congress as “bhasmasur” (mythological demon whose contact would burn down anybody). Hitting again on the Congress’ cost of opportunism in opposition to Kumar after he walked out of the opposition alliance and rejoined palms with previous ally BJP, Tyagi mentioned it’s the obduracy of the principle opposition occasion that derailed the INDIA bloc.
He mentioned the JD(U) had issues with the RJD, the principle opposition occasion in Bihar, at a neighborhood degree however squarely blamed the Congress for the event.
“Now we have remorse in addition to reduction that our chief who introduced collectively the INDIA bloc has walked out of it,” Tyagi mentioned.
The Congress wished to seize the bottom of regional events by making a disproportionate demand of seats within the states they’re sturdy in, he mentioned. The occasion “ordered” its allies like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Bihar CM Kumar to affix its Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra as in the event that they had been its employees, Tyagi added.
The Congress by no means accommodated any ally within the states the place it’s sturdy, he mentioned and cited a number of meeting polls. The INDIA bloc sorely lacked the optics wanted to tackle a grassroots occasion just like the BJP, which is headed by a preferred chief in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he mentioned.
