India: LJP president Chirag Paswan has now said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing 12 joint rallies with JDU and Nitish Kumar for the Bihar elections because he has come under pressure from the Bihar chief minister. While BJP leaders continue to attack and taunt Chirag Paswan, he continues his support for the party and PM Modi.
In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, Chirag Paswan has said, “PM Modi is doing 12 joint rallies with Nitish Kumar because he is under pressure from the JDU chief. Even if Nitish Kumar becomes the chief minister, I will not join NDA and would prefer to sit in the Opposition.”
However, the LJP chief said that he is confident that the BJP will form the next government in Bihar in alliance with his party and ditch Nitish Kumar and JDU, which has been ruling Bihar for 15 years.
“I am confident that after November 10, BJP-LJP government will be formed in Bihar,” Chirag Paswan told India Today TV.
Earlier, Chirag Paswan had said, “The prime minister lives in my heart… I am like his Hanuman. If they (his critics) want, they can open my heart and see that. I don’t need to use the prime minister’s photograph.”
However, BJP leaders have called Chirag Paswan a “vote katua” (splitter of votes) and accused him of trying to create a confusion by harping on his equations with senior leaders of BJP.
Reacting to BJP’s attacks, Chirag Paswan said, “I am pained to hear words like vote katua for my party which was founded by my father, Ram Vilas Paswan. If my party was a vote katua, why did BJP keep us in the alliance in 2014, 2015 and 2019?”
