Former Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Sunday alleged that JD(U) and its ally BJP were in search of "their own Eknath Shinde" who could pull the rug from under the feet of his own party to benefit the rival.

Paswan accused the two parties of remaining in an alliance "just for the sake of power" and charged the BJP with capitulating before Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on ideological issues. Addressing a press conference here, he also claimed that Kumar was trying to cut BJP to size and had "played a role" in the defection of four AIMIM MLAs to the RJD to achieve this end.