Bihar BJP to react after JD(U)'s decision on alliance

Will chart out course of action as soon as JD(U) makes an official announcement on the fate of the alliance

With the ruling NDA dispensation in Bihar heading for a split, the BJP today said it would chart out its course of action as soon as the JD(U) made an official announcement on the fate of the alliance

"We are keenly monitoring developments in the JD(U) which is hell bent on walking out of the NDA," the state unit BJP chief Mangal Pandey told PTI after emerging from the over three-hour long strategic meeting with senior party leaders and BJP ministers at the Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi's official residence.

"The Bihar BJP under guidance of the central leadership will react suitably and announce its course of action immediately after hearing from the Chief Minister and the JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav about their decision on the alliance between the two parties," he said.

Pandey said that the BJP was closely monitoring all developments taking place in the JD(U) and would sit together again to chart out its future course of action immediately after the JD(U) leaders' make an announcement at 3 pm.

On the possibility of the BJP ministers submitting their resignations to pre-empt the Chief Minister's likely move to recommend their sacking from the government, the Bihar BJP chief said that no decision had been made in this regard as yet and "we would like the JD(U) to go ahead with whatsoever decision on the fate of the alliance."

Meanwhile, another senior BJP leader and its national Vice President C P Thakur said that the BJP ministers may submit their resignations to the Deputy Chief Minister for handing over the same to the Chief Minister to terminate the alliance between the JD(U) and BJP.

"The resignation letters are being drafted by the BJP ministers," he said.