RJD to move court against Bihar govt.

July 30, 2017 09:23 pm | Updated 10:11 pm IST - New Delhi

The RJD on Sunday said it will move court “within a week” against he Bihar Governor’s invitation to the JD(U)-NDA coalition to form a government in the State, and hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for “robbery of the mandate”.

“We will knock at the court’s door, and go to the people’s court , and tell the masses about the kind of politics being played by the two parties — JD(U) and BJP,” RJD spokesperson Manoj Jha said. The RJD leader also challenged Mr. Kumar to address a meeting in an area dominated by Dalits, Mahadalits and other backward castes, saying, “He [Kumar] will face the wrath of the people.”

“Every mandate has a character, and in Bihar it was the Dalits, the minorities and some progressive sections of the upper caste. Now, with the JD(U) breaking the Grand Alliance, the character of that mandate has been dropped,” he said.

The Governor’s decision to invite Mr. Kumar to form the government with the BJP, he said, was a “blatant violation” of the SC judgment in the Bommai case. “According to the S.R. Bommai case judgment, it is mandatory to call the single largest party or electoral bloc first to explore the formation of a government,” he said.

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