Patna, May 12: Sights set on the year-end Assembly polls, BJP national president Amit Shah would hold a meeting with senior party leaders from Bihar in New Delhi tomorrow.
All party MPs and senior state national executive members, including former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, have been invited to the meeting. A source said the BJP president would discuss the state affairs after the Janata parivar merger failed to materialise and the results of the BJP membership drive which ended last month.
According to the BJP sources, the party has crossed the figure of 75 lakh members in the state.
A day before the party's strategic meeting in New Delhi, Sushil Kumar Modi today tacitly attacked chief minister Nitish Kumar on the Janata parivar merger issue. Terming it a failed experiment, he claimed the only agenda of its constituent parties was to capture power.
"The storm (Ram Gopal Yadav) has uprooted all the flowers and fruits of the tree (Janata parivar). The quality of fruits depends on the quality of seeds, and in this case, the quality of seeds of the tree was not good," the former chief minister said in retaliation to Nitish's statement yesterday that the Janata parivar reunion was on.
Nitish had quoted poet Rahim on Monday on the merger issue, a day after senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal ruled out the reunion of the Janata parivar before the Assembly elections. " Dheere dheere re maana dheere sab kuchh hoi, mali sinche sau ghara ritu aywe fal hoi (Things happen slowly and gradually. Even if a gardener pours 100 pots of water, a tree bears fruit only in right season)," Nitish had said yesterday.
Attacking Nitish and his government in the state, Sushil Modi today said the government had incurred a loss of Rs 37 crore by awarding a tender for Rs 96 crore for replacement of transformers and other electricity equipment under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana in some districts. The BJP leader said contracts were being awarded at the rates of 2012.
Demanding a CAG probe into the matter, Modi sought cancellation of all the contracts. The BJP would review all such contracts if elected to power in the state, he said.
