Bihar chief minister and president of Janata Dal (United), Nitish Kumar and rebel leader, Sharad Yadav, are gearing up to hold separate meetings of the party on Saturday. While Kumar will hold the party national executive meeting in the national capital, Yadav will hold a meeting of the other JD(U) faction in Patna.
Prior to the meeting, both the factions resorted to ‘poster wars’ and verbal jibes with each claiming to represent the real JD(U).
The Bihar CM had invited Sharad to participate in the national executive meet but the latter chose to hold a parallel meeting in Patna instead.
Sharad’s close aide and Rajya Sabha member, Ali Anwar, said that they would not attend the meeting called by Nitish Kumar. He added that Nitish betrayed people’s mandate by joining hands with the BJP.
“Nitish might have the support of MLAs but we have the support of the party organisation. One hundred and thirty-eight party officials from different states will participate in our meeting. We are representing the real JD(U) and if needed, we will approach the election commission for this,” Anwar said.
JD(U) national gen,eral secretary Sanjay Jha, Nitish’s close associate, dismissed Sharad’s claims that the party is recognised as a regional party by the Election Commission. Party spokesman Ajay Alok warned that disciplinary action will be taken against leaders calling a parallel meeting.
