BJP's Silence Hurts, Relationship Cannot Remain One-Sided: Chirag Paswan

"I expected them (BJP) to mediate and try to sort whole things out. Their silence definitely hurts," Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan said.

"Hurt" at the BJP's silence while he battles challenges from within his party, Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan said on Tuesday his relations with the saffron party cannot remain "one-sided" and he will consider all possibilities about his future political steps if attempts to corner him continue. In an interview with PTI, Mr Paswan said his father Ram Vilas Paswan and he always stood by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP like a "rock" but the saffron party was not there when he expected their intervention during these "difficult" times. Underlining that he retains his faith in PM Modi, Mr Paswan said, "But if you are cornered, pushed and forced to take a decision, then the party will consider all probabilities... The LJP will have to take a decision about its political future based on who stood by it and who did not." To questions on whether the BJP reached out to him during the current crisis and speculation about its role in the split, he said it was not "appropriate" for the saffron party to keep mum while the JD(U) worked to "engineer" a split in the LJP.