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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Madan Kumar | TNN

There was no deal of VIP's merger with BJP, says Mukesh Sahani while refuting Sanjay Jaiswal’s claim

PATNA: A day after his formal dismissal from the Nitish Kumar-led state cabinet, the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) president Mukesh Sahani on Tuesday claimed that the BJP had once offered him to make Union minister by sending him (Sahani) to the Rajya Sabha, if he merges his party (VIP) with the saffron party.

Sahani not only dismissed the BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal’s claim that the VIP chief had earlier agreed to merge his party with the saffron outfit, but also said that the BJP leadership had since 2016 been giving him different kinds of bait to get his outfit merged with the BJP.

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