Union Minister and lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday met BJP president Amit Shah and held talks to strategise a Joint-NDA campaign in the poll-bound Bihar. A detailed programme of public meetings and rallies would be soon worked out in consultations with all NDA allies.
The declaration of candidates for various seats would be done only after the schedule of polls is declared for the elections later this year.
“We have decided to campaign jointly. BJP, lJP and RlSP will campaign together and hold public rallies jointly and a date will be finalised soon on when to campaign in each of the commissionerates in Bihar,” Paswan said after the meeting.
“We held discussions on how to strengthen NDA. We will move jointly and campaign in each commissionerate in Bihar. We will expose the unholy alliance of Nitish Kumar and lalu Yadav which has cheated the people of Bihar and is trying to push the State into ‘Jungle Raj’ and will win with a three-fourth majority,” he said.
Asked about the seat-sharing arrangement between the alliance partners, he said, there is no fight for the leader and this will be decided by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.
Party general secretary Bhupender Yadav, who is co- in-charge of party’s affairs in Bihar, said, “Amit Shah and Ram Vilas Sharma held discussions over NDA strategy for Bihar polls. We will jointly launch our poll campaign and will reach out to the public on all issues”.
BJP’s national secretary Shrikant Sharma said “good governance and development is the main agenda of BJP in Bihar and to save the State from the clutches of jungle raj-2”.
Asked about former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s move to join NDA-fold, the lJP leader said “his coming will certainly benefit the alliance. There is no second thought about it.”