People familiar with the matter said that RJD and Congress leaders, as well as leaders of allies left and VIP, may soon announce the Election Coordination Committee, perhaps at Patna’s meeting. Yadav and his colleagues, including Manoj Jha, drove to Kharge’s residence, Gandhi, KC Venugopal and some MPs held talks with them, formally launching coalition negotiations with the polls.
Yadav then told the media staff: “We had a positive discussion. We will meet again in Patna on April 17. We are well prepared and we hope to move Bihar forward. Even after 20 years of NDA government, Bihar is the poorest state, Bihar is the poorest state, unemployment rate and the rise of immigration. NDA during this period will not form Bihar’s government in Bihar.”
He avoided the Chief Minister’s face-to-face questions, saying that the issues will be determined later. RJD leaders have been predicting that the opposition leader Yadav, in the state legislature, is his CM candidate, and that’s just a matter of time when the league formally recognizes him as a poll mascot, as RJD is the fortress of the league and the protagonist of the ruler who follows the former.
Yadav said on the face of Nitish Kumar, CM and JDU-BJP alliance: “Nitish Ji was hijacked. The BJP leaders just said they would fight the elections below him, but they weren’t saying he would be their CM face.”
Pashupati proposes
Rashtriya LJP head Pashupati Kumar Paras, abandoned after BJP’s tendency to be partisan allies with rival Chirag Paswan, is now seeking to be selected for the RJD coalition and may meet with Congress leaders soon.
