Lalu lashes out at Nitish over disqualification of Sharad, Anwar

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Patna : RJD Chief and former chief minister Lalu Prasad on December 5, 2017,  attacked Bihar CM and JD(U) national president Nitish Kumar over the disqualification of rebel JD(U) Rajya Sabha members Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar.

Lalu said it has become a trait of Nitish Kumar to use people and dump them. Nitish did that to me too as he approached me for an alliance after his crushing defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls and later ditched us to join hands with the BJP, Lalu told mediapersons here. Nitish, Lalu said, had meted out a similar treatment to former JD(U) president Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar.” Nitish has humiliated them by getting them disqualified from the Rajya Sabha,” Lalu said.

” A time will come when the people will ask what was the crime of Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar for which they were given such a treatment,” Lalu said.

The JD(U) had sought the disqualification of Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar on the ground that they had attended a rally organised by the opposition parties including the RJD despite instructions to the contrary.

But, state JD(U) chief Bashishtha Narayan Singh said, “Sharad Yadav had openly been defying the party’s directions, which amounted to voluntarily renouncing the party. He has nobody else but himself to blame for what he is facing.”

Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar had sided with the opposition in Bihar after Kumar quit the Grand Alliance, also comprising the Congress and the RJD, and re-joined the BJP-led NDA to form government in the state.

A communication regarding the two Rajya Sabha members’ disqualification from the House was issued by Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, who is also the chairman of the Upper House of Parliament late December 4, 2017, night.