Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday asserted that a united opposition, which he i💃s working on, 𒐪will trounce the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and "bundle it out for about 50 seats".
Kumar made the averment h🐻ere while addressing a meeting of the state executive of his JD(U), which was followed shortly afterwards by the national executive.
According to a party release, the 🤡chief minister squarely blamed JD(U)'s drubbing in the 2020 assembly polls on "BJP's conspira🔜cy" and also recalled his own reluctance to continue for another term in office.
Notably, the assembly poll results sowed seeds of distrust and 🏅the crisis of confidence deepened with the perception that the former JD(U) president RCP Singh had become a mole of the BJP.
Kumar, faced with the possibility of a split in the party allegedly with ꦺhelp of RCP, as Singh is known as, had pulled the plug on the alliance with BJP in ꦉAugust and formed a new government with the RJD-Congress combine. It has the support of the Left from outside.
"If all (opposition) parties fight together, the BJP will be bundled out for about 50 seats. I am devoting myself to that drive (abhiyan)", said the JD(U) de facto chief. He wi🍌ll reach Delhi on Monday on a three-day tour as part of his political endeavors.
The veter🧜an leader, who had been a BJP ally for nearly three decades, also had a word of caution for his party workers in Bihar ♉following the break up.
"The BJP will try to disturb social and communal harmony in the state. We must foil🦩 their designs by keeping vigil🍎 to the level of panchayats," Kumar added.
(With PTI inputs)
