"Nitish is hobnobbing with a few Congress leaders for the past one year and it resulted in breaking with NDA coalition on the pretext of Narendra Modi's elevation in BJP. The decision taken in Patna was due to Nitish's personal complex against Modi," Singhvi, who was a minister in BJP government in Rajasthan, said.
Singhvi accused Nitish Kumar of taking over JD(U) from Sharad Yadav, which was not acceptable to him.
"JD(U) is not Sharad Yadav's JD(U) that attracted people towards the party...Now it is Nitish's JD(U) and is not acceptable to me," he said.
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