After TDP and Shiv Sena, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP puts Modi govt on notice

LJP leader Chirag Paswan said on Friday the LJP could review its stand if the Modi government met its two conditions by August 7

Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Friday put ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on notice. It said it would be forced to join Dalit protests against the Narendra Modi government on August 9 if its two demands were not met by then.

The LJP is the latest in a series of BJP allies who in recent months have flexed muscles. If it was the BJP which parted ways with its Kashmir ally Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Telugu Desam Party quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in March, and the Shiv Sena has kept BJP on tenterhooks. Other