Big setback for Chirag Paswan-led LJP as lone Bihar MLC joins BJP
2 min read Image Source : ANI LJP MLC Nutan Singh, spouse of Bihar minister and BJP MLA Neeraj Kumar Singh, joined the saffron celebration in Patna.
Days after practically 200 celebration employees joined the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) suffered one other huge blow on Monday when its lone MLC Nutan Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Nutan Singh, spouse of Bihar minister and BJP MLA Neeraj Kumar Singh, joined the saffron celebration in Patna within the presence of state BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal.
“My husband is in BJP so I also decided to join the party so that we both can work together,” information company ANI quoted Nutan Singh, as saying after she jumped the ship.
Last week, greater than 200 mid-level and lower-rung leaders of LJP had joined the JD-U in Bihar.
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.
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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 celebration, based by late Ram Vilas Paswan and now headed by his son.
Most notable among the many turncoats is former state basic secretary Keshav Singh who has been in revolt towards Chirag Paswan and predicting the celebration’s collapse for a while.
Relations had begun to bitter between the JD-U and the LJP final 12 months 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 following 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 celebration.
However, the LJP managed to win only one seat within the Bihar meeting elections.
(With inputs from PTI)
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