Senior BJP leader and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey Thursday alleged the opposition parties are getting together for "selfish reasons."
"You can see alliance in Uttar Pradesh (between BSP and SP). They embraced despite having a history of street battle between them. ... but power hungry Mayawati got into alliance," Pandey, who is also the BJP's Lok Sabha polls in-charge of Jharkhand told a press conference here.
"In Jharkhand or in any other part of the country, the birth of these Gathbandhan parties took place on the basis of anti-Congress (plank). And now they are getting together only for selfish reasons and power hunger," he said.
Pandey said the Mahagathbandhan or Gathbandhan show that the opposition leaders "have admitted" that they could not fight the BJP-led NDA government alone in the forthcoming general elections.
He termed the alliance of the oppositon parties as "opportunistic alliance".
Pandey said the BJP-led NDA government honours its alliance partners and claimed that the number of its partners have increased from 24 in 2014 to 35 parties now.
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