Making clear its aversion for Narendra Modi, JD-U on Wednesday virtually gave an ultimatum to BJP to desist from projecting the Gujarat Chief Minister as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate or be ready to snap the alliance.
The warning was given by party general secretary Shivanand Tiwari, who said that NDA cannot come to power with a "fanatic face" and JD-U will not compromise on principles on which it had joined the Opposition alliance in 1996. After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's strong pitch for a "secular" Prime Ministerial candidate for NDA, Tiwari took the anti-Modi tone in JD-U to a new decibel.