Patna, June 16, 2023 (PPI-OT): Janata Dal United (JD-U) leader and Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, has said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is worried over opposition unity momentum and may go for early Lok Sabha polls. Speaking to reporters in Patna, said, “I may have spoken about early polls in jest but it is also a strong possibility. Those in power at the Centre may sense that there is a lot of movement in the opposition camp.”

Kumar is trying to bring together leaders from almost 20 parties that are against the BJP for a meeting on June 23. He also justified the removal of former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi from the state’s ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance),’ stating that he was practically spying on opposition parties at the BJP’s request.

After the Mahagathbandhan doors were closed in his face, Manjhi claimed that Kumar had instructed him to “merge” his party Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) with JD-U or leave, which the chief minister did not refute but did provide his side of the story. “Of late, he had begun to hobnob with the BJP people,” Kumar claimed, alluding to Manjhi’s April meeting with BJP leader and Indian Union Home Minister, Amit Shah.

Kumar said, “I was apprehensive that he might be thinking of leaking to the BJP whatever deliberations would be held on June 23 when so many leaders from across the country will be sitting together”.

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