Patna, Jan 17 (UNI) Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal on Monday cautioned JD(U) leaders for making statements against BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it could jeopardise the existing NDA coalition in the state in which both parties are constituents.
Both Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have been trading charges against one other over the past few days and trying to settle their scores on the issue of a writer comparing great emperor Ashoka with Mughal ruler Aurangzeb.
JD(U) leaders had demanded withdrawal of all felicitations including Padmashree award conferred on Octogenarian writer Daya Prakash Sinha for comparing Ashoka with Aurangzeb in a drama written by him, but Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal preferred to close the chapter by lodging an FIR against the writer at Kotwali police station in Patna for hurting sentiments of the communities of Bihar. The writer in question had termed both Ashoka and Aurangzeb as cruel.
Jaiswal’s demand for a review of the liquor ban law had also drawn sharp criticism from JD(U) leaders. Sparks flew between the BJP and JD (U) leaders on the issue with both sides giving sermons to one other to follow the coalition dharma.
Jaiswal, in a latest move, advised JD(U) leaders to maintain cordial relation with the BJP so as to run the coalition government smoothly without any frictions and confrontations. If something untoward happened in BJP-JD(U) coalition, people of Bihar would be the worst sufferer as there was a high possibility of the state returning to pre 2005 era when Jungle Raj (lawlessness) prevailed during the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) regime, he noted.
The BJP leader said that it was the responsibility of both the parties to run the coalition government smoothly in the larger interest of the people of Bihar. Referring to that demand that the Padmashree award conferred on writer Daya Prakash Sinha be withdrawn, he said that not a single such case has happened in the last 74 years.
Jaiswal advised JD(U) leaders not to target BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on any issue. Such behaviour could not be tolerated at all, he warned. UNI KKS SSP