You say BJP is dangerous to India, then why alliance for Delhi poll, says JD(U) leader to Nitish
Days after JD(U) declared that it would fight the Delhi elections in alliance with BJP, the party’s national general secretary Pavan Varma has written to Nitish Kumar, querying him for “ideological clarity.”
A copy of a letter which he tweeted, Varma says even after joining hands with the BJP in Bihar, Nitish had referred the saffron party was “leading India into a debacle” and “sabotaging institutions.” The JD(U) leader asks Nitish why, despite these restrictions, the party scaled its alliance with the BJP beyond Bihar, when its “standing allies like the Akali Dal have refused to do so.”
Verma said, “I remember you confessing to me in private how the current leadership in the BJP party has humiliated you,” the letter says, adding that Nitish had felt “democratic and socialist forces within the country needed to regroup”, a task for which he “actually assigned a senior party official.” “I think there is an urgent need for the JD(U) to harmonise what the party’s Constitution says, what the leader of the party feels in private, and what actions the party takes in public,” the letter adds.
This is not the first time Varma has written an open letter to Nitish on CAA-NRC. Earlier in January, he had asked his party supremo to reject the controversial CAA-NPR-NRC scheme, describing the move as a “nefarious agenda to divide India and create a great deal of unnecessary social turbulence.” JD(U) is contesting two seats in Delhi in alliance with the BJP — the Purvanchali-dominated Burari and Sangam Vihar — and Nitish is expected to campaign for the candidates.
