Bihar: Dipankar Bhattacharya sees BJP role in Upendra Kushwaha move

PATNA: CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said here on Tuesday that the exit of former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha from the JD(U) and the formation of new political outfit Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD) by him was an effect and part of the overall “Lotus operation” of the BJP to implement the “(Eknath) Shinde effect” of Maharashtra on the JD(U) in Bihar.
“It is part of the ‘Lotus operation’ of the BJP on the JD(U), and also playing the ‘Shinde effect’ in Bihar as it happened on the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra,” Bhattacharya told media persons after the conclusion of his party’s 11th convention held here.
Bhattacharya, who was elected the party’s general secretary for the fifth term, said the dismantling of the NDA government by CM Nitish Kumar and consequent formation of the Grand Alliance government by him in Bihar in August last year had happened around the same time as the BJP and Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena together dislodged the Udhav Thackeray government of the Congress, Shiv Sena and the NCP in Maharashtra.
“The BJP is unlikely to stop just at the Kushwaha episode in the JD(U) and the seven-party Grand Alliance in Bihar. Therefore, there is need for general alert and to be on guard about it,” Bhattacharya said.