New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) said that they will welcome Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal United (JDU) Nitish Kumar into the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).


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"We will welcome Nitish Kumar in the NDA. If he will move towards NDA, we will reciprocate and work in unity," senior BJP leader Vinod Narayan Jha said here.


Union Minister and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan said that Nitish Kumar should join the NDA. 


"If Nitish Kumar joins the NDA, LJP will welcome him," Paswan said. 


Paswan claimed that Nitish is feeling uncomfortable in the 'Bihar Mahagathbandhan' with the RJD and the Congress.


Both Vinod Narayan and Paswan asked Nitish, who is the JD(U) president, to join the NDA after he announced his support for the BJP-led NDA nominee for President, Ram Nath Kovind. 


Earlier, BJP state president Nityanand Rai also said that Nitish Kumar is welcome in the NDA.


Nitish Kumar on Friday said his party is free to take its decisions, and admonished the Opposition for fielding "Bihar's daughter" Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha Speaker, in the Presidential poll, to lose.


However, Janata Dal (United) leader Shayam Rajak said that the party is a part of the grand alliance in Bihar and it will not join the NDA.