Sushil Modi and two other key leaders said Nitish Kumar will remain the prime minister of the NDA.
Patna:
After two days of silence on the great divide between Chirag Paswan and Nitish Kumar, on Tuesday it appeared that the BJP was determined to overcompensate for the hurt feelings of the five-time chief minister. The oldest leader of the BJP, Sushil Modi, issued a clarification that was aimed at putting the young leader of the Lok Janshakti Party in his place. In the media meeting, he and two other key party leaders insisted that Nitish Kumar will remain the prime minister of the NDA.
Among them, Sanjay Jaiswal, Sushil Modi and Bhupendra Yadav insisted 12 times that Nitish Kumar retain his post, flatly contradicting Chirag Paswan’s claim that after a victory, the Lok Janshakti Party and the BJP would form a government together, eliminating Kumar completely.
Tonight, the head of the state party, Sanjay Jaiswal, took the lead, who said: “The leader of the NDA in Bihar is Nitish Kumar and” Only those who accept the leadership of Nitish Kumar in Bihar will remain in the NDA. ”
“The BJP will do everything possible to make him the Chief Minister. Nitish Kumar will become the Chief Minister with a three-fourths majority,” he added.
Sushil Modi took a few more steps.
Only Nitish Kumar, he stated, will be the Chief Minister, “whatever the outcome in terms of numbers,” indicating that the deal will stand even if the JD (U) count falls below the BJP’s numbers.
Modi, who is also Kumar’s deputy in state government, said Paswan Junior could not have taken that step if his father were present. Ram Vilas Paswan, 74, recently underwent heart surgery and is recovering in hospital.
Bhupendra Yadav’s statement was along the same lines, indicating the BJP’s eagerness to placate the Chief Minister.
The statements by BJP leaders come amid speculation in the JD (U) that the Chirag Paswan rebellion was tacitly endorsed by the party’s top leadership as a ruse to keep Kumar at bay. Much of the speculation was sparked by the BJP’s long silence on the young leader’s public attacks on Nitish Kumar on a variety of issues and his party’s eventual decision to go it alone, but stick with the BJP.
Kumar, who has also not commented on the issue so far, said Tuesday that it was impossible to please everyone, “no matter how hard you try.” While he did not name the LJP leader, his excavation at Paswan Senior made the context clear.
“They (the Lok Janshakti Party) had only two MLAs and they ask anyone how he (Ram Vilas Paswan) went to Rajya Sabha with the help of the BJP and Janata Dal United,” he said.
Paswan has yet to respond to the BJP’s claims. The leader, whose party has strongly portrayed him as a contender for the state’s highest post, said in an open letter Monday that the decision to dissociate himself from Nitish Kumar was “made not to rule Bihar but to be proud.”
Earlier Tuesday, in an interview with NDTV, he described his party’s alliance with Nitish Kumar as a “compulsion.”
“Overnight he left RJD and Congress and went over to the NDA and became prime minister again. We had no other choice. But we realized that Nitish Kumar was still working on his own agenda and never listened. nobody, “said Chirag Paswan, whose party has cited ideological reasons for the decision.
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