Amit Shah to meet Nitish Kumar today, to discuss seat-sharing for Lok Sabha polls
Patna, July 12 (IBNS): Amid speculations of a possible rift in the alliance, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah will meet Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar in Patna on Thursday, media reports said.
According to reports, the two top leaders might engage themselves into a discussion over the seat-sharing formula for the next General Elections, which will be held in less than a year's time from now.
The JD(U), however, is not intending to play a dominant role in the alliance but expecting a parity on seat-sharing, The Indian Express reported.
The tension in the alliance was created after Nitish's recent comments which targeted the communalism in the country.
Nitish had once said his party will neither compromise with corruption, the reason for its break-up with Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), nor communalism, to which the BJP is often accused.
In the last Lok Sabha elections, the BJP, riding on the Narendra Modi wave, swept Bihar by winning 22 seats reducing the JD(U) to just 2 seats.
In 2015 Assembly elections, with an aim to stop the Modi juggernaut, the JD(U), the RJD and the Congress formed a grand alliance which wrested power in the eastern state.
But Nitish's flip-flop after two years resulted in the fall of the government.
The JD(U) went back to its old ally, the BJP, to continue its rule in Bihar.
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