Ajay Alok has quit as Janata Dal United (JDU) spokesperson after being hauled up by party seniors for criticising chief minister Mamata Banerjee and calling Bengal a “mini Pakistan”. Given the love-hate relationship between the JDU and the BJP, Nitish Kumar’s party would want to keep all options open. Although the resignation is yet to be accepted, a senior JDU leader said Alok had been pulled up for some of his recent statements. However, Alok made polarising and communal comments similar to those made by Bengal BJP leaders on the hospital stand-off. The bitterness between the BJP and the JDU once again came out in the open when BJP leader Rameshwar Chaurasia said on Friday that the Nitish-led government had failed on the law and order front.

Source: The Telegraph June 15, 2019 01:41 UTC