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Six of seven legislators of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) in Arunachal Pradesh have defected to the BJP.

Nitish Kumar, still smarting from the Bihar election that demoted him as junior partner to BJP, has been served fresh humiliation by his long-time ally in a state where his party had recently registered its presence.

Six of seven administrators of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal-United (JDU) in Arunachal Pradesh have absconded to the BJP. The JDU currently has only one MLA in the 60-part Arunachal gathering. Alongside an MLA of the People’s Party of Arunachal, the BJP currently has 48 individuals.

The JDU MLAs who quit are Hayeng Mangfi, Jikke Tako, Dongru Siongju, Talem Taboh, Kanggong Taku, and Dorjee Wangdi Kharma. Three of them had been suspended and served sees a month ago for against party movement after they picked an administrative gathering pioneer purportedly without talking with the state JDU boss.

The BJP’s state unit boss Biyuram Wahge said the advancement demonstrated individuals’ confidence and trust in the authority of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Pema Khandu.

Those near Nitish Kumar are amazingly angry with what is being viewed as the BJP’s disloyalty and this is set to come up during the two-day National Council meeting of the Janata Dal-United this end of the week. The JDU and BJP are not accomplices in Arunachal and Nitish Kumar’s gathering are in the resistance in the state, yet it underpins the BJP-drove government.

The JDU turned into a perceived state party in Arunachal Pradesh simply a year ago, in the wake of winning seven seats in the northeastern state and setting second after the BJP, which was the biggest party with 41 seats.

“The count qualifies us for the status of the principle resistance. However, we will offer full help to the BJP government in that state. Regardless of whether we get the resistance status, we will be a well-disposed resistance,” JDU pioneer KC Tyagi had been cited as saying by news organization PTI.

The strength of resistance has now gone down to 12 – four each from Congress and National People’s Party, one from the JDU, and three Independents.

This is the second shock to Nitish Kumar after he held the occupation of Bihar Chief Minister in ongoing surveys however was made profoundly mindful of his decreased status in the BJP-drove alliance.

In the October-November political race, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA’s) larger part in the 243-part gathering was fueled by the BJP’s 74 seats. The JDU completed at number 3 – after Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD and BJP – with its count dropping to 43 from 71 of every 2015.

Nitish Kumar actually became Chief Minister however the BJP exercised authority by supplanting his long-lasting second-in-order Sushil Modi with two new Deputy Chief Ministers.