Jitan Ram Manjhi Will Get Due Respect In NDA

Preeti Sigh 5295 20 Feb, 2019

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The BJP on Wednesday said former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi would get due respect in the NDA if he chose to return to the coalition which he had walked out of a year ago. Bihar BJP president Nityanand Rai said this in the backdrop of recent posturing by Mr Manjhi who has been playing hardball for a respectable number of seats within the opposition Mahagathbandhan for his Hindustani Awam Morcha. "We have enormous respect for Manjhi. Even when he left us and joined the opposition camp, we expressed no bitterness. If he feels that he is being sidelined in the Mahagathbandhan, let me assure him that he will get due respect in the NDA if he chooses to return, Mr Rai told reporters. The Bihar BJP president also said the NDA in Bihar has finalized a seat-sharing formula taking into account the parties that are already in the coalition. "If more people join us, then things would be reworked," he said.