Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha has been given a notice announcing the MLA’s wish to be treated as a separate group and its merger with the RJD, thus raising its effective power in the House of Commons to 80, more three times more than BJP.
A beaming Yadav emerged from the Speaker’s booth, accompanied by four MLAs and old confidants, and left the conference premises to respond to congratulatory messages.
The MLAs who jumped ship were Syed Ruknuddin Ahmed (Baisi), Shahnawaz Alam (Jokihat), Mohd Izhar Asfi (Kochadhaman) and Mohd Anzar Naeemi (Bahadurganj).
The party, led by Asaduddin Owaisi, which made headlines by winning five seats in the 2020 parliamentary elections, is now left with only state president Akhtarul Iman representing Amour.
All five seats won by AIMIM are in the Kishanganj and Araria Lok Sabha constituencies, which have the highest Muslim population density in Bihar.
Notably, Jokihat MLA Shahnawaz Alam happens to be the son of the late Mohd Taslimuddin, an RJD veteran and former Union Minister. Alam had his first successful election in a side poll in 2018 when he contested an RJD ticket but rejection of the same in parliamentary elections two years later led him to leave the party. this.
The RJD brought in his brother Sarfaraz Alam, who has been in the political wilderness since losing his seat Araria Lok Sabha to the BJP in 2019 and who lost to his younger brother by less than 10,000 votes. .
At a press conference held to officially announce the development, Tejashwi Yadav emphasized that all four MLAs “come from the poorest, flood-ravaged areas of the state” are reeling under “worshipping.” of a government that doesn’t care about health, education, and other kinds of public welfare”.
In response to a question, however, he denied that the development alludes to a “planned operation” by RJD to increase its shares in Bihar which it has long ruled and where it has its mark. respawn after a lean patch.
In pre-council polls, the RJD won 75 seats, making it the largest party. It won another seat earlier this year when it won Bochahan from the NDA in a by-election.
“We want all secular forces to come together and become stronger. And the role of the RJD in the fight against socialism cannot be overstated. It is because of us that in Bihar, The BJP has never gathered the courage to run an election on its own.” Yadav.
“NDA may have gained power in Bihar by immoral ways but look at the BJP here. It is taking on the character of a Minister whose party is third in number,” the RJD leader said. said. (U) have less than 50 MLA.
Meanwhile, the BJP, which was enjoying the status of a single largest party when it eliminated all three MLAs of the Minister’s Vikassheel Insaan Party that was ousted a few months ago, when raising its strength to 77, reacted. respond to this development.
State BJP spokesman Nikhil Anand alleged, “Owaisi may have sold his MLA by taking money from the RJD”.
