Nitish asks party to gear up for polls without alliance

Janjivan Bureau
PATNA: Janta Dal ( U ) will fight assembly election without alliance. Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar asked his party’s elected representatives and heads of various cells from different districts to go to the poll battle in their respective areas. He will keep meeting the party MLAs and MPs from different districts till June 17.
“Gathbandhan ho toh bhi thik, nah ho toh bhi thik (if alliance with RJD happens, alright; if not, no problem),” Nitish said, exhorting them to tell the electorate about the works done in the state during the nine years of his chief ministership.
According to sources, Nitish in his speech did not appear keen on alliance as he considered merger a better option. The JD (U) leadership believes RJD would create problems in alliance as Lalu was staking claim even on the existing JD (U) seats.
“I have not done anything wrong which should make you feel ashamed. Even he is speaking against me whom I elevated to the top. Now, he is talking about making a Nitish-free Bihar,” Nitish said, in an oblique reference to Manjhi.
“We have been told not to wait for alliance to happen but go to the people and tell them about the works done under Nitishji,” Govindganj MLA Meena Dwivedi told TOI after the meeting.