Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi criticized Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal United (JDU) for their strategy to form an alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the coming Vidhan Sabha elections.
"In politics any party can have an alliance with any party, nobody can question it but when desperate and depressed people form an alliance then they are not left with anything in the end," said Naqvi.
Another BJP leader Ali Anwar added that in the current situation when inflation is rising, communalism is heating up and the democratic norms are being linked to trade, the parties should take such decisions which go in the favour of the country.
Meanwhile Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D.Raja said, "We're watching developments in Bihar, if secular and democratic parties come together it will be good.
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