NATIONAL DIVIDED ALLIANCE?

Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular is not with the BJP, which is joining the JD(U)’s January 21 ‘human chain against liquor’ rally. Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP are also silent. Rumblings within the NDA over recent moves BJP ally AJSU declared on January 11 that the Raghubar Das government was a total failure. The party, which has four MLAs (including a minister), is in a sulk because Das has been less attentive to it ever since he gained the support of six MLAs from rival JVM