By IANS,
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said the situation was under “control” with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) following a tiff with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, and the alliance between the two parties was “intact”.
“This morning, (Bihar BJP chief) Dr. (C.P.) Thakur and I met (L.K.)Advaniji and explained the situation in Bihar in detail. There will be a meeting later in the evening today (Monday) after the party president (Nitin Gadkari) arrives in Delhi,” BJP spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters here.
“We are running a vehicle of development in Bihar together with JD-U… We are not against progress, so we are trying to put it back together,” he added.
Earlier, party spokesman Ramnath Kovind told IANS that the party’s alliance with JD-U was “intact”.
“We are meeting today (Monday) to sort out the issues with the JD-U and not to aggravate it. Our alliance with the JD-U would be intact,” he added.
Kovind said the JD-U-BJP government in Bihar had carried out a lot of development work over the past five years and the party would not like to break the alliance “simply on this emotional issue”.
A miffed Nitish Kumar Saturday returned to Gujarat the Rs.5 crore given for flood relief in Bihar after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi went public with it during a BJP leadership meeting here last week.
Since then, the two sides have been locked in a war of words, triggering fears that their alliance may snap ahead of assembly elections later this year.