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JD-U decides not to be an NDA member outside Bihar

Source: ANI
June 09, 2019 17:50 IST

IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar along with party vice president Prashant Kishor and secretary general K C Tyagi during the JD-U's National Executive Meeting at CM official residence, in Patna, on Sunday. Photograph: PTI Photo

Janata Dal-United will not contest the upcoming assembly elections in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party's top body decided in a meeting in Patna on Sunday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led party will go solo in the upcoming assembly elections in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Delhi, leaders who were part of JD-U's National Executive meet said.

 

"The JD-U is not in alliance with any party outside Bihar. We have discussed our plan to fight elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Haryana and Delhi.

"Leaders have been tasked with preparing grounds for contesting the polls in these states," JD-U leader Gulam Rasool Baliyavi told ANI.

Notably, no JD-U leader was inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Cabinet and no BJP leader was made a minister in the recent expansion of state council of ministers.

Encouraged with its stellar performance in Arunachal Pradesh state polls, the party has decided to strengthen its presence in other states.

Maheshwar Hazari, another JD-U leader, said, "We fought on 16 seats and won seven in Arunachal Pradesh. At the meeting, we have discussed to strengthen our party in other states in order to get national party status."

The JD-U, however, will remain a part of National Democratic Alliance in Bihar and will continue to support the central government.

Source: ANI

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