Manoj Kumar Jha said this on the increasing interest in JDU leadership change
Patna: A day after Lallan Singh resigned from the top post of Janata Dal (United) and Nitish Kumar took charge of the party, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Kumar Jha said he was surprised to see such interest. Are. The internal activities of a political party show that there is no democracy left in the country. Speaking to reporters in Patna on Saturday, Jha said, “Since I have been following the politics of independent India, such increased interest in the internal activities or general changes of any other party makes me believe that there is no democracy in the country.” There is none left.” , The Rajya Sabha MP also took a dig at journalists and said that he hoped that the same interest would be seen when the next Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president is appointed after JP Nadda.
Jha said, “I hope that such interest will be seen when the next BJP president after JP Nadda is appointed.” Manoj Jha admitted that there were some rumors that Lalan Singh wanted to focus on certain issues while leading the party. Jha said, “As per my understanding, Nitish Kumar has taken charge of Janata Dal (United). There were rumors that Lalan Singh wanted to focus on other issues. Yesterday, our leader Tejashwi Yadav had explained it clearly.” The MP from Bihar also said that as far as Bihar is concerned, there is special interest in it. “There is some uneasiness, especially for Bihar,” Jha said, taking an indirect dig at the BJP. He referred to the time when BJP lost power in the state after Nitish Kumar switched sides and joined hands again with RJD to form the government. , JD(U) witnessed a change on Friday when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was unanimously re-elected as the party president at the party’s national executive meeting in Delhi.
This came after Rajiv Ranjan Singh, popularly known as Lalan Singh, resigned from the post. This is not the first time that Nitish Kumar has held the post of party president. In 2016, he became the party president in place of Sharad Yadav. In 2013, he broke ties with the NDA after a 17-year alliance after Narendra Modi was announced as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. Kumar, who himself has prime ministerial ambitions, expressed displeasure over the BJP nominating Modi for the top post. In 2017, Kumar formed a grand alliance with the RJD and Congress and returned as chief minister in 2015. He walked out of the grand alliance in 2017, accusing the RJD of corruption and strangulation of governance in the state. In 2022, Nitish Kumar once again broke ties with BJP and alleged that BJP was plotting against him and trying to influence JD-U MLAs to rebel against him.
