JD(U) takes dig at Paswan for proposing to join BJP-led NDA

Hours after the LJP announced its decision to authorize its president Ramvilas Paswan to work out an alliance with the BJP, the JD(U) today slammed Paswan for going back on his commitment never to go back to communal forces after quitting the NDA government in 2002 over the Gujarat riots.
"What has changed between 2002 and now that has prompted Paswan to forge an alliance with the BJP?" senior JD(U) leader and the Water Resources Department (WRD) minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary wondered.
The LJP supremo will have to explain to the people as to why he has reneged on his promise to never go back to the fold of the communal forces and has done exactly the same 12 years after he had quit the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government over the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said.

Nobody has forgotten that Paswan, the then Coal minister in the NDA government, had resigned in April 2002, in protest against the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's mishandling of the riots against the minority community and yet he has decided to go back to the same party and embarrassingly sought to work under Modi's leadership this time, Chaudhary recalled.
The JD(U) minister also hit out at the BJP leadership for proposing to forge an opportunistic alliance with the Paswan-led LJP as the former union minister has been a staunch critic of the saffron party's ideology for more than a decade, the WRD minister said.

Both the LJP and BJP will have to do a lot of explaining to the people of Bihar to justify formation of an 'unholy' alliance between them, the senior JD(U) leader said and urged the electorate to see throughout the opportunistic designs of both these parties before casting their franchise in the general elections.