Fissures grew wider today in the JD(U) camp with three ministers Mahachandra Prasad Singh, Baidyanath Sahni and Javed Iqbal Ansari coming out in open to publicly rebuke ruling party spokesman Ajay Alok for showing exit doors to three ministers for their alleged proximity with the BJP.
The three ministers concerned were Narendra Singh, Nitish Mishra and Brishen Patel.
"The spokesman's remark is uncalled for and should not have been discussed in the media," Bihar Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) Minister Mahachandra Prasad Singh told reporters.
"He (Ajay Alok) has no business to level baseless charge against some ministers and ask them to resign from post and join the BJP," he said, adding that he has been offended by the spokesperson's outburst and take up the matter with JD(U) national President Sharad Yadav.
Echoing PHED minister's views, Tourism Minister Javed Iqbal Ansari and Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister Baidyanath Sahni said that the party spokesman has had no business to discuss intra-party affairs in media and added that if there was any issue, it should have been discussed at appropriate forum within the party.
The developments capped state unit JD(U) spokesperson Ajay Alok's comments yesterday asking Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh, Education Minister Brishen Patel and Rural Development Minister Nitish Mishra to quit from the government and join the BJP.
"We will ensure a dignified exit for you all by giving a farewell," Alok had said and charged these three ministers with being hand in-gloves with the BJP and looking for greener pasture with the saffron party in future.
While Singh and Mishra had denounced the ruling party spokesperson "For exceeding his brief" to demand resignation of ministers and levelling unsubstantiated charges against them, Patel had chosen to ignore Alok's jibe.
Alok's barb came hours after another JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar, said to be close to former chief minister Nitish Kumar, having flayed Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for taking part in the feast at the house of RJD supremo Lalu's Prasad's estranged brother in-law Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav's in the state capital.
