Expel Lalu's son, will support your govt: BJP to Nitish
Bihar BJP President Nityanand Rai on Monday said that the BJP is ready to support Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's government if he expels his deputy and Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi Yadav. Adding that it's BJP's dream to make India 'Congress-free', he said, "if Kumar will need to save his government...We will support his government from outside but won't join it."
As speculations are rife that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may ask his deputy and Lalu Yadav's younger son Tejashwi Yadav to reisgn after CBI raids against him, Bihar BJP today said they will support the JD-U government from outside."I appeal Nitish Kumar to expel Tejashwi Yadav. After that if they need it we are ready to support them," said. However, he said, it is the central leadership that will take the final decision."In RJD there is no meaning of a meeting. Today's meeting was a drama and whatever happens in the party is what Lalu Yadav wants," he said.The BJP leader said Nitish Kumar will have to leave the Congress as Sonia Gandhi has already said that she is with Lalu Yadav in the corruption case."And BJP's dream is to make India Congress-free," he said adding that Nitish Kumar's image which was that of good governance has also been affected."But if Nitish Kumar will need to save his government then BJP will not be behind. We will support his government from outside but will not join it,"  Bihar BJP president Nitayanand Rai said.Even after the CBI filed a case against him and his family members, the Rashtriya Janata Dal has decided that Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav will not resign.Nitish Kumar, who is heading the Grand Alliance government of Janata Dal-United, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress in Bihar, is yet to comment on the matter but he spoke with Lalu last night on the phone.There has been speculation of cracks in the alliance government after the CBI crackdown against the Yadav family and Nitish's increasing closeness with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nitish, who was in an alliance with the BJP for 17 years, has been giving political signals of getting closer to the BJP.Surgical strikes on Pakistan and demonetisation have been a few instances where Nitish has been the lone opposition face to come out and openly extend his support to PM Modi, much to the discomfort of the Opposition, especially RJD chief Lalu Prasad with whose support he is running a coalition government in Bihar.Even in the presidential election, Nitish has decided to support NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind and not the opposition's candidate Meira Kumar. ALSO READ:Tejashwi Yadav won't resign as Bihar Deputy CM, say RJD MLAs over raids on Yadav properties 