TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ An hour-long meeting on Thursday between top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag remained inconclusive, sources indicated.
On a day former BJP ally Upendra Kushwaha joined the United Progressive Alliance, the saffron party’s ties with the LJP appeared to be in trouble with Chirag asking the central government to explain what benefits demonetisation brought to the country.
However, BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav, who is his party’s in- charge for Bihar and was present in the meeting, insisted that there is no problem in the alliance and that it is intact. LJP sources said the BJP’s defeat in the five state polls have ignited a rethink in the party over its ties with the saffron party.
Chirag, sources said, had written a letter to Jaitley with a copy to Modi after the results were announced on December 11 and asked him to list the benefits of demonetisation so that he can ‘explain’ them to people, they said. In his comments to media, Chirag has spoken about unease among farmers and youths, and had also tweeted about the ruling National Democratic Alliance passing through ‘trying times’.
