Talking to the reporters in Delhi, where Tejashwi arrived on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan to meet his father and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi told, "It's a natural alliance, not a deal.
When his act was objected to by the fellow passengers, Mandal entered into a verbal duel with them.
In a sudden move, he quit as JD(U) president in favour of Ram Chandra Prasad Singh ~ or RCP as he is widely known ~ thereby marking out clear blue water between the coalition government he heads in Bihar and the JD(U) and BJP as distinct parties.
With this defection, the JDU now has just one MLA in the 60-member Arunachal assembly and the BJP now has 48 members.
BJP stoutly backed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s leadership to the hilt and snubbed LJP chief Chirag Paswan who has raised a banner of revolt.
Further, JD(U) leader Pavan K Varma stressed for harmony between the party's constitution, its chief's private conviction and its actions taken in public.
Meanwhile, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 8,500 crore for updating the National Population Register (NPR), which is said to be the first step in implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Kishor expressed bemusement on Twitter at the 'vyakhyan' (discourse) from Sushil Modi on coalition dharma, and made a close-to-the-bone remark about 'circumstances' that helped the veteran BJP leader return as deputy in 2017, despite his party having lost the assembly polls two years before.
He has in the recent past rankled the BJP with his continuous outbursts against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s consultancy firm I-PAC has come on board with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
