Nitish Kumar working on someone else's behest: Upendra Kushwaha

Janata Dal United JDU leader Upendra Kushwaha who is at loggerheads with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the Bihar CM is working on someone elses behestI am Parliamentary Board President just in documents I am not being given the power to exercise decisions for the post The Chief Ministers decisions are not his own he is functioning according to someone elses decisions Kushwaha told ANINotably Upendra Kushwaha has convened two days open session of his supporter in Patna on February 1920 to discuss the prevailing situation in JDUEarlier Kushwaha had written an open letter to party workers and claimed that JDU is getting weaker due to internal reasonsAfter becoming part of the grand alliance I have been worried about the partys position since the results of the assembly bypolls were announced I kept informing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar about the partys condition I have tried my best to save the party from losing ground in Bihar and my efforts continue even today he wroteDespite all the efforts Kushwaha said his concerns were ignored by Chief Minister Kumar and interpreted incorrectly He said he is concerned about the supporters of JDU if the party disintegratesAlso Read I will rather die than join hands with BJP again says Nitish KumarI want to save JDU This is only the motive and intention behind the open letter to party workers Still 15 days remain in between I hope that good sense will prevail in the party Kushwaha told ANIMeanwhile Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that all of this has started in the last two months and is only being done for publicitySpeaking to the media Nitish Kumar said All this started happening in the last two months This is being done for publicity You will get to know soon When publicity happens one should understand who is doing it We have asked people not to comment on this The party remains unaffected the membership has only increased since last year All this is irrelevantIf someone wants to come and then leave again we are least bothered If one stays and works it is all okay but if you keep speaking you are focused somewhere else he addedThe Chief Minister also counted the multiple opportunities JDU provided to KushwahaHe said No need to focus on such things We gave him Upendra Kushwaha so much made him MLA and party leader then he left but came again and we made him Rajya Sabha MP he left again and came back for the third time and said that he will remain in the partyNitish Kumar further alleged that the opinion of Kuhwaha was different from that of the partyWe gave him respect and do not know what happened again We accepted him for the third time in our party He can speak whatever he wants to speak If you will speak every day then that means your opinion is different from ours he saidBack in August last year Nitish Kumar ended his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Partyled BJP National Democratic AllianceNitish joined hands with Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav under Mahagathbandhan Grand Alliance after quitting his former alliance partner BJP and became the chief minister of Bihar for the eighth timeJDU and BJP had fought the 2020 assembly polls together and Nitish Kumar was made the chief minister of the alliance though the BJP had won more seats Nitish Kumars ties with BJP stretched over two decades and he was a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1996This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever