Mr Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has run into some friction with the BJP in Bihar over an explosion at a madrasa in Banka district.
A buzz about possible realignment of political forces in the state Bihar has been set off after Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tej Pratap Yadav met Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha is an ally of the ruling alliance in Bihar.
The BJP has not come out ot the massive setback it suffered on Friday in West Bengal as its national Vice President Mukul Roy returned to his former party TMC. A similar homecoming of a leader to the Grand Alliance in Bihar is getting a somewhat intense speculation.
Mr Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has run into some friction with the BJP in Bihar over an explosion at a madrasa in Banka district, 250 km from Patna.
Mr Manjhi, responding to BJP leaders who said these are places for anti-national activities, said: “It is not right to target a community for political gains.”
RJD leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav meeting the HAM chief added fuel to the the likely homecoming fire of Mr Manjhi. Tej Pratap Yadav, who lives just a few steps away from Mr Manjhi’s house in Patna, went to the HAM chief’s residence on Friday.
Mr Yadav, after the meeting, said he told Mr Manjhi that he’s free to return to the Grand Alliance or Mahagathbandhan, from which Mr Manjhi had announced exit in August last year ahead of the assembly election two months later. Mr Majhi’s departure had weakened the Mahagathbandhan’s fight against the NDA.
BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, who was deputy CM for the last term in Bihar, said denied there was any friction with Mr Manjhi’s party with the NDA in Bihar. Mr Modi stepped in to ask everyone in the Bihar NDA to stop making statements against each other.
“Former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is a senior leader of the NDA, so there should not be any rush to take political meaning of any public representative’s courtesy visit to him,” said Mr Modi.
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