BJP downplays JD-U neta’s pitch for ‘President Nitish’

Express News Service

PATNA:  Political climate in Bihar has heated up but once more after a senior JD-U minister made a name for naming Chief Minister Nitish Kumar because the Presidential candidate. Alliance accomplice BJP, nevertheless, downplayed it.

JD-U minister Shravan Kumar kick-started the talk by saying Nitish ought to be made the Presidential candidate as “he has all the abilities to assume the top constitutional post”. “Nitish is not in the race for the top post but everybody wants to see him as the President. He will be a better Presidential candidate and will also hold the responsibility well,” he added.

“Nitish ji possesses all qualities to become Rashtrapati,” he asserted. The minister additionally claimed that Nitish has a “large vision on national and international issues”. “Every Bihari will be happy to have Nitish Kumar as the next President,” he added.

The saffron camp, in the meantime, downplayed the JD-U chief’s assertion. “When the presidential candidate would be declared formally, I would react,” firebrand BJP chief Giriraj Singh informed reporters in Muzaffarpur.

In the identical vein, senior Bihar BJP minister Ramsurat Kumar mentioned the matter will probably be settled when the title is introduced. “In democratic set-up, everybody has the right to contest elections,” Kumar, state’s income minister, mentioned. In the previous two events, Nitish had sprang surprises in the course of the Presidential elections.