Patna: The bitter war of words between the erstwhile partners in Bihar - the Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got shriller by the day. After Bihar Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh claimed that 40 BJP MLAs were in touch with the JD(U) leadership, Bihar BJP President Mangal Pandey has accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of trying to use money power to lure the legislators.
Pandey also claimed that a dozen JD(U) MLAs were in touch with him. He also warned Nitish Kumar against trying to split the BJP and said that the Bihar Chief Minister will have to pay a heavy price if he tried to do so.
Nitish Kumar had ended his party's 17-year-old alliance with the BJP after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was made the BJP election campaign committee chief and since then the two parties have not missed any opportunity in targeting each other.
There have been murmurs within the BJP and a party MLA, Amarnath Gami, from Hayaghat in Darbhanga district has been suspended for criticising the party leadership. After Gami other BJP MLAs like Rana Gangeshwar Singh and Vijay Kumar Mishra have come out on his support and questioned the logic of suspending him.
Some other MLAs like Shashi Hazari, Beena Singh and Avanish Kumar, too, have questioned the working of senior party leader Sushil Kumar Modi. Meanwhile, the BJP has alleged that these MLAs were being offered ministership by the JD(U).
Pandey also alleged that Nitish Kumar was not expanding his ministry after the BJP ministers quit as he feared that his party would split.
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