By Express News Service
PATNA: Two days after a senior JD-U minister claimed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has all the skills to turn into President, JD-U nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Saturday scotched all speculations over it by asserting Nitish wouldn’t be a Presidential candidate.
JD-U chief Lalan Singh, additionally the occasion MP from Munger, stated, “Nitish Ji is neither a candidate nor he is going to become President. He has got the mandate to serve people of the state till 2025.”
Senior JD-U minister Shravan Kumar had created a flutter in political circles when he commented that Nitish possessed all of the qualities to turn into the President just a few hours after the Election Commission introduced Presidential election schedule on Thursday.
Besides Lalan, two different ministerial colleague of Nitish Kumar — Sanjay Kumar Jha and Ashok Choudhary—heaped praises on Nitish saying that though Nitish possessed all of the qualities for the submit, he was not desirous to be within the race for the President’s submit.
The essential opposition occasion, RJD, additionally prolonged its assist to Nitish if he was declared Presidential candidate. It can be a matter of delight for Bihar if someone from the state turns into President, the occasion commented. Earlier too, there have been speculations over Nitish Kumar being projected as Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates however he had himself rejected all these conjectures.
But the difficulty revived after the JD-U minister Shravan’s assertion on CM as Presidential candidate. But it’s nonetheless shrouded in thriller why Shravan pitched for making Nitish a Presidential candidate when different senior JD-U leaders needed to make clear later that Nitish wouldn’t be presidential candidate.
Two different senior JDU ministers- Sanjay Jha and Ashok Choudhary- had additionally earlier stated that Nitish had no want to turn into President and would proceed to serve the individuals until 2025.
On being contacted, Shravan Kumar, who maintain rural growth portfolio, stated, “Such kinds of talks keep on doing the rounds in the air given his (Nitish) long and illustrious political career. But the fact is that he no lust to become either the Prime Minister or the President.”
The reversal of JD-U’s stand on the difficulty got here quickly after some BJP leaders took a dig at JD-U for projecting Nitish Kumar as Presidential candidate. “It just isn’t that just one individual deserves this submit. There are hundreds of thousands of individuals within the nation who’ve the qualities to turn into the President,’ remarked state agriculture minister Raghvendra Pratap Singh.
Singh is a cabinet minister from BJP quota.
