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Earlier in the day, speaking to IANS, Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi said, "Session of Bihar assembly will take place from July 10, in such scenario the meeting might be postponed to a fresh date."

“The action of Lalu Prasad Yadav was not threatening to divide the country or create communal frenzy in the country. His action was to stop communal violence. He had saved the country with his action. We have not taken revenge for anything,” RJD's Bihar President Jagadanand Singh said. 

"We already knew that Manjhi was talking to NDA. Him joining NDA is no surprise to us," Chaudhary said. Earlier, Manjhi and his son Santosh Kumar Suman met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in presence of MoS Home Nityanand Rai in Delhi. Following the meeting, Manjhi announced his party's alliance with NDA. He said that HAMS is a part of NDA from now on.

"If Nitish Kumar has any proof about me, then he should disclose it in the public domain. We do not have such blood or nature to do spying and pass the messages from one place to another," Manjhi said while interacting with media persons in Gaya. "The real truth was Nitish Kumar applying pressure on me to merge.

Due to the power of the Dalit vote bank, Ram Vilas Paswan always stayed with the ruling party at the Centre and became a Union minister several times. Due to the Mahadalit vote bank, Jitan Ram Manjhi became the chief minister of Bihar. With the recent moves of Manjhi, both the NDA and the Grand Alliance leaders are.

The meeting was held at the Chief Minister's residence.The Bihar Chief Minister takes review meetings of every department these days and ministers concerned are normally present there. Even Tejashwi Yadav was present on several occasions during the meetings of his departments chaired by Nitish Kumar.

Terming it a "crime", Neeraj Kumar, MLC and party chief spokesperson for the party, said, "When the democracy of the country was being tarnished during the inauguration of new Parliament, Singh went there and participated in the event. It is a crime as our top leadership had already announced to boycott the event."