'The RJD may have publicly allied with Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, but it has a 'secret alliance' with Congress for the assembly polls due in October/November', BJP national general secretary Ananth Kumar said.
The BJP today charged the RJD and Congress with having a 'secret alliance' for the forthcoming assembly polls and appealed to the electorate to elect NDA government to power for a second term in order to fast track economic development in Bihar.
"The RJD may have publicly allied with Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, but it has a 'secret alliance' with Congress for the assembly polls due in October/November", BJP national general secretary Ananth Kumar told reporters here.
"The RJD and the Congress have been allied with each other for over a decade and the former is very much part of the UPA government at the Centre as it has not withdrawn its support to the government", he said.
The RJD and the Congress have been steadfast in supporting each other in Bihar and at the national level to such an extent that the former stood like a rock in support of the UPA government on the cut motion moved by the opposition on budget in Parliament earlier year, Kumar, the BJP in-charge of the party affairs in Bihar, said.
Kumar said that the Congress had been cosy with the RJD over the years and had joined the latter's government in 2000 despite contesting the then assembly polls on its own and thus, voting for the party would amount to strengthening the hands of Prasad yet again.
The BJP leader described the Bihar assembly polls as a crucial event and said that its outcome would have a strong impact on the national politics.
"The political equations may change at the national politics after the assembly polls in Bihar," he said without elaborating further.
On the BJP's electoral strategy, Kumar said that the party has decided to make winnability as the criteria for giving tickets to the prospective candidates.
Similarly, the party workers will seek to woo the electorate at the booth level in the run up to the assembly polls, he said.
Meanwhile, Kumar announced the appointment of senior BJP leader Kiran Ghai as the party's media in-charge for the assembly polls, while an influential leader and sister of former union minister Nagmani, Madhu Kushwaha joined the saffron party.
Kumar, who was here to attend the meeting of the constituency in-charges of the BJP, was effusive about the performance of the NDA government headed by the chief minister Nitish Kumar.
"The ruling coalition deserves another stint in power to complete its agenda to make Bihar a developed state over the next five years", he said.
"Bihar and its people cannot afford to be ruled by the RJD-LJP combine yet again as all the gains made by the Nitish government on the law and order and development front will be neutralised", he said.
The BJP leader also played down the importance of 'Rahul Gandhi factor' in Bihar assembly polls and said he would not succeed in his endeavour to sway the electorate in favour of the Congress had been the case in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh in recent years.
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