Within a month of the Lok Sabha election results, JDU is holding its national executive meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. It comes at a time when there is a demand from a section of BJP in the state that the party should field its chief ministerial candidate in the next assembly elections, even as JDU and BJP leaders have dismissed claims of a possible mistrust between the two parties.
In the previous national executive meeting of JDU held in December, before the party switched from the INDIA bloc to the NDA fold, JDU president Lalan Singh was replaced with chief minister Nitish Kumar. Significantly, in the previous two national executive meetings held in Delhi, JDU has announced a new party president.
Apart from the party leadership, JDU will discuss the dent in its core Lav-Kush (Kurmi-Koeri) support base during the Lok Sabha polls. The party won 12 seats out of the 16 it contested. Two of its MPs are currently ministers in the NDA government at the Centre. In such a scenario, JDU will assume the role of the bigger alliance partner in Bihar.
“There is a meeting of party office-bearers followed by a national executive meeting of JDU. This is a routine process of the party where the national executive of the party will discuss the current political scenario and how JDU is going to take forward the political and development agenda for Bihar,” JDU leader KC Tyagi told ET.
