LJP leader, Chirag Paswan claims his party does not see the Bihar government surviving more than two years due to internal differences.
Alleging that the crime graph in Bihar was surging, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Chirag Paswan has said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was clearly not in control of the government and the apprehensions of return of "jungleraj" were coming true.
"We had discussed in our core party meeting (recently) that - will it be too early to demand President's rule or resignation of the Chief Minister (Nitish Kumar) because every alternate day someone or the other is getting killed in our state...We can't really wait for things to get better now," LJP Parliamentary Board Chairman said yesterday.
Mr Paswan, a Lok Sabha member, said Nitish Kumar also cannot be given the benefit of doubt because he has vast experience and had been Chief Minister for three terms.
He also alleged that the killings clearly showed that Mr Kumar does not have control, and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad was directly running the coalition government in Bihar.
"He (Nitish) is the Chief Minister, and I don't know what is stopping him to
check these kinds of incidents (killings). This clearly shows he (Nitish) has no control over the government, and Laluji is directly running it," said Mr Paswan.
The son of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, also said, "The crime graph in Bihar is on the surge, and we did not expect things to get worse so soon. So, whatever our apprehensions of return of jungleraj have come true, which we had predicted soon after Laluji joined hands with Nitishji to form government."
Asked how long the government would last, Mr Paswan claimed his party does not see it surviving not more than two years as there has been
"verbal arguments" between
Mr Prasad and Mr Kumar.For instance, Mr Paswan said, there has been arguments between the two over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise visit to
Lahore in Pakistan recently.
"The way Nitishji appreciated Prime Minister for his Lahore visit, and the way Laluji criticised it, clearly shows they are not on the same platform," he said.
He also said they were not natural allies for a very long time and were against each other, but today they have joined hands to come back to power in our state and to stand against BJP, LJP and National Democratic Alliance.