Amid speak of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rising because the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition, his celebration Janata Dal (United) on Friday stated that if different events need so, it’s an choice.
JD(U) president Lalan Singh stated Kumar’s foremost focus is on uniting the opposition events within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and he’ll go to the nationwide capital to fulfill leaders of assorted events after the belief vote within the subsequent Bihar Assembly. Week.
Nitish Kumar, the longest-serving chief minister of Bihar and the principle face of the JD(U), isn’t the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition, his shut aide informed PTI.
Asked concerning the celebration’s view by way of different opposition events supporting him to imagine energy, he stated, “If other parties take a decision and want so, then it is an option.”
The JD(U) president and Lok Sabha MP stated a number of opposition leaders, together with Sharad Pawar and Arvind Kejriwal, congratulated Kumar after he severed ties with the BJP and cast an alliance together with his rivals to type a brand new authorities in Bihar.
He stated all of the opposition events ought to sit collectively to resolve the management towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP within the subsequent Lok Sabha elections.
“Or, all of the events ought to combat unitedly to defeat the BJP and later resolve who might be their chief. There are each choices. Nitish Kumar will work to deliver all the opposite events preventing the BJP on a single platform to current a united problem to its governance.
Kumar’s determination to interrupt ties together with his ally BJP since 1996, apart from the interval between 2013-17, has fueled hypothesis about his prime ministerial candidature. BJP leaders have claimed that this ambition was behind their determination to affix fingers with the RJD-Congress-Left alliance.
Kumar has denied such claims.
It is believed that his picture, untainted by allegations of corruption and nepotism – two of the BJP’s placards focusing on most opposition events, together with the Congress – make him a robust option to emerge because the chief of a united opposition.
Lalan Singh highlighted the BJP’s goal of successful at the least 35 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar and claimed that the celebration would lose 40 seats from its 2019 tally in Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand alone.
Stating that dropping 40 seats would deliver the BJP’s tally beneath the bulk mark, he stated the ruling celebration ought to fear about its destiny throughout the nation in such a state of affairs.
In the 2019 elections, the BJP had gained 303 seats within the 543-member Lok Sabha.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
