Bihar’s former Chief Minister, Jitan Ram Manjhi, has decided to withdraw from the grand alliance, Hindustani Awam Morcha(HAM) on Thursday. Manjhi had convened a meeting of the core group of his party, HAM in which the decision was taken.
As per the reports, the party will not merge with JD(U). The apprehensions of many activists have been rejected by the party leadership. Seat sharing will be talked about only after the alliance.
It is being speculated that Manjhi has decided to exit the Grand Alliance following an assurance from CM Nitish that his party will give Hindustani Awam Morcha about 7 to 10 tickets from the JDU quota in the assembly elections.
Senior Dalit leader Shyam Rajak joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal on Monday, just a day after his dismissal as the Bihar industries minister and his simultaneous expulsion from the ruling JD(U).
Calling Nitish Kumar “anti-Dalit”, Rajak criticised the JD(U) for its lack of inclusivity. “There is no room for dignity of the scheduled castes in the JD(U). The party dismissed me without serving me even the customary showcase notice. There is a dictatorship in the JDU,” he said.
Chirag Paswan recently has ruffled the feelings of the JD(U) leadership by vehemently opposing the holding of the state assembly elections in October-November due to the grave situation in Bihar due to the coronavirus pandemic. Not only Chirag Paswan, but his father Ram Vilas Paswan has also irked Kumar by saying that party affairs are handled by Chirag Paswan and he has no say.
The differences between the JD(U) and LJP have widened to the extent that leader of the JD(U) parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh, called Chirag ‘Kalidas’, who is known for cutting the branch on which he was sitting.
