New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will be ‘intact’ despite differences with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
‘We are meeting today (Monday) to sort out the issues with the JD-U and not to aggravate it. Our alliance with the JD-U would be intact,’ party spokesman Ramnath Kovind told IANS here.
He said the JD-U-BJP government in Bihar had carried out a lot of development work over the past five years and the party would not like to break the alliance ‘simply on this emotional issue’.
A miffed Nitish Kumar Saturday returned to Gujarat the Rs.5 crore given for flood relief in Bihar after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi went public with it during a BJP leadership meeting here last week.
Since then, the two sides have been locked in a war of words, triggering fears that their alliance may snap ahead of assembly elections this year.
