Patna/Ranchi, August 4
The Janata Dal (United), an NDA ally headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, today announced to go it alone in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Jharkhand that has a BJP-led government.
The JD(U) will also try to emerge as a political alternative in the current situation plagued by “mob lynching, corruption, and rapes” in that state, the party’s Jharkhand unit chief Salkhan Murmu said.
Reacting to this, the Jharkhand unit of the BJP said the party expected the JD(U) would side with it on development.
“We are looking forward to contesting as many seats as possible, depending on the number of winnable candidates we get. We are not averse to contesting all 81 seats, if we get as many good candidates,” Murmu said. Murmu made the announcement a day after he held deliberations with Kumar and the party’s national vice-president and poll strategist Prashant Kishor. — PTI
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