Tejashwi takes a swipe at BJP over seat-sharing in Bihar
December 23, 2018 16:18
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday took a jibe at the BJP for agreeing to contest only 17 seats in Bihar in the Lok Sabha polls next year, despite having won 22 in the last general election.
The leader of the opposition in the state assembly also indirectly claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party gave in to arm twisting by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who head the Janata Dal-United and the Lok Janshakti Party respectively -- both NDA allies.
The LJP and the JD-U have reaped the benefit of questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation two years after the note ban, Yadav said in a tweet.
His remark was a reference to Paswan's son and LJP Parliamentary Board Chief Chirag Paswan recently writing to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and requesting him to elucidate the benefits of demonetisation so that his party could explain the same to its voters.
Moreover, Kumar who had come out in support of demonetisation while still part of the opposition's 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance), remarked earlier this year that the drive could not achieve its objective of curbing black money and blamed the banking sector for it.
Taking a dig at the BJP, Yadav tweeted that despite having achieved power through the back door in Bihar and having 22 sitting MPs, the party agreed to give an equal number of seats to Kumar, who had returned with a tally of only two seats.
"Now you can understand the dire straits the NDA is in," the Rashritya Janata Dal leader said.
-- PTI
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