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| Highlights: Sushil Kumar Modi on split with JD(U) | | | Agencies
Bihar, June 16 : Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has confirmed that his alliance with the BJP is over. In a meeting with Governor DY Patil this afternoon, he asked for the BJP's 11 ministers to be dismissed from his cabinet. BJP leader and state's Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi addressed the media after the split. Here are the highlights: " JD(U) has broken a 17-yr-old alliance. This will go down as a black day in Bihar's political history. JD(U) has broken our trust. " The 2010 electoral win was not the BJP or JD(U)'s win - it was a victory for the coalition. "When Narendra Modi was appointed as campaign head, JD(U)'s official response was that it is BJP's internal matter. We had told them that when we decide on a name for the PM, we will take them into confidence. What has happened in these past 4-5 days that such a move was precipitated? " Nitish should have resigned on moral grounds since he became the Chief Minister as he was elected as the NDA parliamentary head in Bihar. " He could have resigned, been elected the JD(U)'s leader and staked claim. "
Our behaviour has been exemplary as an alliance partner, and we have had a very important role in all vital decisions.
"\In the last 17 years, the BJP has always tried to keep the alliance together. In the last seven years in Bihar we have tried to run the alliance without any problems. " BJP time and again assured JD(U) that they would be consulted before a decision on PM candidate is made yet they decided to part ways. Most Recent "
JD(U) has not only broken our trust, it has broken people's trust and people will give a fitting reply to this in the elections. " BJP calls for a Bihar Bandh on June 18 against this betrayal and appeals to the people of Bihar to see how their mandate has been betrayed "
The people will respond during the Lok Sabha polls " The issue of principles raised by JD(U) is matter of convenience. People become secular or communal when required. "Those who are being called 'communal' today will become 'secular' in 2014. Whenever its convenient, we are secular and whenever inconvenient we are communal... that can't be. |
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