JD(U) likely to take final call on alliance with BJP on Sunday

Patna/New Delhi: The ruling coalition in Bihar seems to be heading towards a split possibly on Sunday, with JD-U saying that “problems” and “difficulties” have arisen out in the wake of Narendra Modi’s elevation in BJP.

Meanwhile, state NDA convener Nand Kishore Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday refused to meet the Chief Minister. Yadav and Modi were invited by the CM for a talk on Saturday morning. Yadav said he told the CM that “our national leaders including party president Rajnath Singh, L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Nitin Gadkari and others have been talking to you and Sharad Yadav on larger political issues including PM nominee…the subject does not fall in our jurisdiction hence there is no point meeting”. “We are state leaders and have no authority to talk about Prime Ministership which only our national leaders can talk,” Bihar NDA Convenor and state Road Construction minister Yadav said. His remarks came against the backdrop of a media report that quoted Nitish Kumar as saying that BJP should publicly declare that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be its prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 polls.