Pro-NDA Bihar legislators leave for Delhi

Patna,: Seventy-nine members of the dissolved Bihar Assembly have left for New Delhi to present themselves before President APJ Abdul Kalam on June 10 and express their resentment over the dissolution of the house.

JD(U) state general secretary Jnanendra Singh 'Jnanu' said 55 JD(U) members in the dissolved house had left for New Delhi on Tuesday while former LJP national principal secretary general Nagmani, accompanied by four rebel LJP members left today for the national capital.

BJP leader Aswini Kumar Choubey led a group of 20 members of his party to New Delhi. Independent member of the dissolved house Jagdish Sharma claimed that 14 of the 17 independents would participate in the parade.

Some former MLAs would reach New Delhi directly from their constituencies, he added.

Leaders of breakaway faction of LJP Avdhesh Kumar Kushwaha and Vijay Kumar alias Munna Shukla said 132 members of the dissolved assembly would join the 'parade of MLAs'.

At least 22 of the 29 LJP members in the dissolved house were aggrieved at dissolution of the House even before the elected members were sworn in and all of them would march to Rashtrapati Bhawan with NDA members and independents supporting their cause, the leaders claimed.

Besides, the rebel LJP leaders had collected written declaration of five members of the dissolved house extending support to NDA leader Nitish Kumar for formation of government, Mr Kushwaha and Mr Shukla added.