Patna, May 31: The ruling JDU, ignoring the uncertainty looming over the alliance with the RJD, today began gearing up for the Assembly elections.
JDU state president Bashishtha Narayan Singh today convened a high-level meeting with Bihar unit officials at the party office, where several decisions were taken and a detailed programme was chalked out.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar would meet all workers of the state apart from the 37 district presidents, block heads and cell heads in Patna between June 3 and 16. Sources said Nitish would seek suggestions from party workers on whether to go for an alliance with RJD or not. The meeting would take place on the pattern of the training programme that Nitish had once organised at 7 Circular Road in January this year.
The party would also organise chaupal (assemblage) covering most villages in the state from June 24 to 30.
The differences between JDU and RJD are coming to the public domain every passing day. Nitish did not turn up to attend the Nishad Rally at Gandhi Maidan yesterday, where RJD chief Lalu Prasad was present.
JDU's detailed programme, Bashishtha said, would highlight the achievement of their party not the RJD.
"Why should we highlight RJD's achievements? It is the programme of JDU. So it is but obvious that we would only highlight the achievements of JDU and Nitish Kumar," Bashishtha told The Telegraph.
The party has also convened a state-level farmers' meet at Rabindra Bhavan on June 18, a state-level youth meet at SK Memorial Hall on June 20 and on June 22, the party would stage a dharna in every block against the Centre's land acquisition bill.
Nitish would attend the June 18 and June 22 programmes.
Requesting anonymity, a senior official of the party who was present at the meeting said: "The main motive to organise these programmes is to get the feedback from the grassroots level over the alliance issue, as the merger has already gone into the black hole. It is a kind of testing the waters before going to polls, especially over the alliance issue in which Nitish ji would take a stock of the views of party workers."
