The feud between RJD and Janata Dal United (JDU) has escalated after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav claimed that CM Nitish Kumar had begged for forgiveness in August 2022 to return to the Mahagathbandhan. State President RJD Jagdanand Singh released a video of RJD’s program at Rabri Devi’s residence on Friday on August 8, 2022, in which Nitish greets Rabri Devi sitting on the stage and Rabri also greets him with folded hands. In this video of RJD, Nitish has a mic in his hand but there is no sound of what he is saying. JDU has sought the audio of the video from RJD on Saturday.
JDU national spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, MLC Neeraj Kumar and other leaders held a press conference at JDU’s state office in Patna regarding the video released by RJD. JDU leaders said that respectfully greeting is the culture of every civilized citizen. What is seen in the video shows Nitish Kumar’s courtesy.
JDU leaders asked that where and who has the audio of the video released by RJD? JDU leaders said that it is clearly visible in the video that when Nitish greeted Rabri, she also greeted Nitish with folded hands. By releasing the video, RJD has somehow put Rabri Devi in ​​the dock as well.
Tejashwi Yadav had said while talking to the media in Samastipur that when Nitish had come to him, he had begged and apologized in front of the MLAs. Tejashwi Yadav had claimed that there is a video of this as well. After this, JDU leader and Nitish’s close minister Ashok Chaudhary had challenged that if there is any such video, then RJD should make it public. After this, RJD released this video without sound yesterday.
While releasing the video on Friday, Jagdanand Singh had said that he does not get involved in what Nitish is doing. He said that he was also a spectator of that program and had seen the whole action himself. He had said that Nitish is with the apologists. Jagdanand Singh had claimed that Nitish had formed the government with RJD for the second time after apologizing. He had said that Nitish has only one achievement, he can go anywhere and with anyone. Jagdanand had said that RJD will now form the next government in the state with the mandate.
Let us remind you that on 9 August 2022, Nitish Kumar broke the alliance with BJP and submitted the resignation of the National Democratic Alliance government on the same day. This video and debate is from a day before the resignation. On August 10, the day after the resignation, Nitish took oath of the Mahagathbandhan government with Tejashwi Yadav with the support of RJD, Congress and Left. Even before this, Nitish has once run a Mahagathbandhan government with RJD from 2015 to 2017. On January 28 this year, Nitish again formed the NDA government with BJP.