PATNA: Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday requested the NDA leaders to desist from making off-the-cuff remarks and be "more tactful" during elections, within the wake of the celebration's poor appearing within the fresh bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
He expressed fear over some leaders of the ruling NDA on the Centre infrequently making remarks that created an influence of the alliance being in opposition to positive sections of the society.
Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is the most important ally of the BJP within the NDA.
While campaigning for BJP during the Araria bypoll on March 9, Bihar celebration unit president Nityanand Rai had allegedly mentioned that if the RJD candidate won the election, Araria would turn out to be a safe haven for the ISIS.
An FIR was lodged in opposition to Rai for violating election code.
Similarly, Union minister Giriraj Singh's utterance a day after the celebration's loss within the bypoll that Araria would turn out to be a "hub of terrorism" additionally drew sharp grievance.
Paswan mentioned "social arithmetic" is understood to be a cast ballot plank in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar than talking about construction, adding that was the reason at the back of the BJP's "shocking" defeat within the bypoll in its conventional stronghold of Gorakhpur.
"The bypoll results in Bihar were not at all surprising. One Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies had fallen vacant upon the death of the incumbents whose close family members retained the seats for the respective parties. The respective tallies of the RJD and the BJP remained unaltered", Paswan told newshounds here.
"But, it is in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh where we received shock. The party lost both the seats despite running popular governments at the Centre and in the state", he mentioned.
"It was in this backdrop that LJP parliamentary board chief Chirag Paswan spoke about the need for a course correction. There was no anti-incumbency against the BJP in UP, yet it lost because arch rivals BSP and SP joined hands," Paswan mentioned.
The meals minister was regarding a up to date tweet by Chirag Paswan, his son and the MP from Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.
"We ought to look carefully at how Congress remained in power in the country for so long, enjoying the support of Dalits, Brahmins and Muslims without actually doing anything for them," Paswan mentioned.
The BJP-led NDA governments, headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi, have made tireless efforts to make stronger the condition of those communities, he added.
"That the NDA works for the progress of all is a fact. This fact needs to be coupled with a bit of tact. Leaders ought to be more tactful and avoid blunders like speaking against reservations during assembly elections," he mentioned.
He was regarding a remark by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on reservation in jobs during the Bihar meeting polls in 2015, which is extensively believed to have queered the pitch for the BJP-led alliance.
About TDP in Andhra Pradesh walking out of the NDA and moving a no-confidence motion in opposition to the Narendra Modi executive, Paswan remarked, "The party (TDP) has acted keeping its prospects in the next assembly polls in the state, due next year, in mind. Their demand for special status is, however, not possible for any government to fulfil".
"Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is our ally, has been raising the demand for granting special status to the state for so long. Bihar would have been thrown into turmoil upon grant of special status to Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, the new system of special packages has done away with the need for grant of special status as it involves a lot of ifs and buts in providing central assistance to needy states", he mentioned.
About former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha founder Jitan Ram Manjhi additionally quitting the NDA and becoming a member of the RJD-Congress combine, the Union minister mentioned, "The NDA is like an ocean to which a few drops do not matter".
"Moreover, Manjhi is a Mahadalit and his exit from the NDA coincided with former state Congress president Ashok Chowdhury - who belongs to the same social group - joining the coalition along with three other MLCs of his party," he pointed out.
Paswan additionally dismissed claims by RJD leaders that Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief and Union minister Upendra Kushwaha was feeling uneasy within the NDA and might hand over the alliance soon.
"He (Kushwaha) has himself categorically denied the same. He is firmly with the NDA. The RJD-Congress combine is going overboard," the LJP chief added.
He expressed fear over some leaders of the ruling NDA on the Centre infrequently making remarks that created an influence of the alliance being in opposition to positive sections of the society.
Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is the most important ally of the BJP within the NDA.
While campaigning for BJP during the Araria bypoll on March 9, Bihar celebration unit president Nityanand Rai had allegedly mentioned that if the RJD candidate won the election, Araria would turn out to be a safe haven for the ISIS.
An FIR was lodged in opposition to Rai for violating election code.
Similarly, Union minister Giriraj Singh's utterance a day after the celebration's loss within the bypoll that Araria would turn out to be a "hub of terrorism" additionally drew sharp grievance.
Paswan mentioned "social arithmetic" is understood to be a cast ballot plank in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar than talking about construction, adding that was the reason at the back of the BJP's "shocking" defeat within the bypoll in its conventional stronghold of Gorakhpur.
"The bypoll results in Bihar were not at all surprising. One Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies had fallen vacant upon the death of the incumbents whose close family members retained the seats for the respective parties. The respective tallies of the RJD and the BJP remained unaltered", Paswan told newshounds here.
"But, it is in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh where we received shock. The party lost both the seats despite running popular governments at the Centre and in the state", he mentioned.
"It was in this backdrop that LJP parliamentary board chief Chirag Paswan spoke about the need for a course correction. There was no anti-incumbency against the BJP in UP, yet it lost because arch rivals BSP and SP joined hands," Paswan mentioned.
The meals minister was regarding a up to date tweet by Chirag Paswan, his son and the MP from Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.
"We ought to look carefully at how Congress remained in power in the country for so long, enjoying the support of Dalits, Brahmins and Muslims without actually doing anything for them," Paswan mentioned.
The BJP-led NDA governments, headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi, have made tireless efforts to make stronger the condition of those communities, he added.
"That the NDA works for the progress of all is a fact. This fact needs to be coupled with a bit of tact. Leaders ought to be more tactful and avoid blunders like speaking against reservations during assembly elections," he mentioned.
He was regarding a remark by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on reservation in jobs during the Bihar meeting polls in 2015, which is extensively believed to have queered the pitch for the BJP-led alliance.
About TDP in Andhra Pradesh walking out of the NDA and moving a no-confidence motion in opposition to the Narendra Modi executive, Paswan remarked, "The party (TDP) has acted keeping its prospects in the next assembly polls in the state, due next year, in mind. Their demand for special status is, however, not possible for any government to fulfil".
"Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is our ally, has been raising the demand for granting special status to the state for so long. Bihar would have been thrown into turmoil upon grant of special status to Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, the new system of special packages has done away with the need for grant of special status as it involves a lot of ifs and buts in providing central assistance to needy states", he mentioned.
About former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha founder Jitan Ram Manjhi additionally quitting the NDA and becoming a member of the RJD-Congress combine, the Union minister mentioned, "The NDA is like an ocean to which a few drops do not matter".
"Moreover, Manjhi is a Mahadalit and his exit from the NDA coincided with former state Congress president Ashok Chowdhury - who belongs to the same social group - joining the coalition along with three other MLCs of his party," he pointed out.
Paswan additionally dismissed claims by RJD leaders that Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief and Union minister Upendra Kushwaha was feeling uneasy within the NDA and might hand over the alliance soon.
"He (Kushwaha) has himself categorically denied the same. He is firmly with the NDA. The RJD-Congress combine is going overboard," the LJP chief added.
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