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JD-U meet on Bihar Govt formation on March 29
Sources say the party could also review its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Top Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leaders will meet on Tuesday to chalk out fresh strategy to form a Government in Bihar, but sources say the party could also review its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The three-day "Samiksha aur Chintan Shivir" in Rajgir, a historic Buddhist centre in Nalanda district, comes a month after the state threw up a fractured verdict in the assembly polls, leading to President's Rule from March 7.
"Though the party's main agenda will be to come out with fresh strategy after a discussion on how to form the Government in the state, the party will also review poll results," said senior JD-U leader Upendra Kushawaha.
The meeting will be attended by all the top JD-U leaders, including George Fernandes, Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav and Digvijay Singh, as well as party MPs and newly elected legislators. The party has also invited grassroots workers to the meet.
A senior party leader told the agency that the party's relations with the BJP would be discussed because the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) of Steel Minister Ramvilas Paswan, he said, was ready to support the JD-U to form a Government, if it snapped its ties with the BJP.
"The party's relations with the BJP will be discussed with a view to ending the deadlock on forming a Government," the JD-U leader said.
The JD-U contested the assembly polls along with the BJP, in which the latter secured 37 seats and the former 55 seats. The LJP has 29 seats in the 243-member house.
Top JD-U leaders have, however, repeatedly said they would not end a tie-up with the BJP to join hands with the LJP.
State JD-U president Bijendra Prasad Yadav was reluctant to say whether the party would discuss its tie-up with the BJP. "We will only discuss how to strengthen the party and how to form the government," said Yadav.
Sharavan Kumar, a party legislator from Nalanda who is in charge of the meet, said: "The meet would mainly focus on finding ways and means to form a popular government of non-RJD parties by next month."
Nitish Kumar has been saying that president's rule in Bihar is nothing but an extension of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) rule. He is totally against continuation of president's rule.
