Dispelling doubts about any cracks in the unity of three NDA constituents, their chiefs on Saturday said they would jointly campaign for next month’s elections to 24 seats of the Bihar Legislative Council, which is being seen as the semi-final for the Assembly elections later this year.
“Workers of the three parties have been working together to ensure victory of NDA nominees on all seats,” BJP’s Mangal Pandey told a joint press conference which was also attended by Pashupati Paras and Arun Kumar of LJP and RLSP (Rashtriya Lok Samata Party), respectively.
As per their seat-sharing arrangement for the Council polls in the first week of July, BJP has put up nominees for 18 seats followed by four by LJP and two by, RLSP which is led by Union Minister of State for HRD, Upendra Kushwaha.
The press meet on Saturday came in the wake of some discordant voices arising recently over the name of the NDA’s chief ministerial candidate and also for allotment of seats for the upcoming Assembly polls.
At its national executive meeting at Hajipur, RLSP had last week mooted Kushwaha’s name as the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate.