‘Nitish now in entrance row of Opposition camp together with Mamata’: Shatrughan Sinha
By PTI
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stands within the “front row” of the opposition camp together with Mamata Banerjee and others to finish the “Modi raj” within the nation within the 2024 normal election, former BJP chief and now Trinamool Congress MP Shatrughan Sinha stated on Wednesday.
Sinha stated the JD(U) chief has given the BJP a style of its personal drugs after it dislodged governments of opposition events in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
On who amongst Kumar and Banerjee may emerge because the opposition face in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the subsequent Lok Sabha ballot, the actor-politician informed PTI that the folks of the nation and leaders of the opposition events would determine it at an “appropriate” time.
Sinha, who had served as a cabinet minister within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities, has turn into a Lok Sabha member from Asansol in West Bengal not too long ago from Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Popularly known as “Bihari Babu”, the actor-politician bid goodbye to the BJP after being denied a ticket from his native Patna Sahib seat within the 2019 normal election.
Before parting methods with the saffron social gathering, Sinha had on a number of events focused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home minister Amit Shah utilizing the barb “one man party and two men army” in opposition to them.
After leaving the BJP, Sinha had unsuccessfully contested from the Patna Sahib constituency on a Congress ticket in 2019.
After mendacity low within the Congress, he converted to Trinamool Congress and Banerjee selected him for the by-election within the Asansol Lok Sabha seat vacated by Babul Supriyo.
“Better late than never, Nitish Kumar has given the BJP a taste of its own medicine that it administered in Madhya Pradesh and now in Maharashtra using its money power,” Sinha alleged.
He was in his native place Patna on the day Kumar took oath as chief minister of Bihar for the eighth time together with deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav.
“Due to his bold decision, Kumar today stands in the front row in the opposition camp along with Banerjee and others to lead the downfall of ‘Modi raj’ in the next Parliamentary election,” he stated.
Opposition events have claimed the JD(U) breaking ranks with the BJP and becoming a member of arms with the RJD, Congress and others is a sign of the change in Indian politics, asserting that their imaginative and prescient to struggle the saffron social gathering and its “politics of intimidation” has gained momentum.
Kumar, who has dumped the BJP for the second time after severing ties in 2013 and reconciling in 2017, is being talked about within the political circles as a possible opposition face in opposition to Modi in 2024 however many nonetheless view the JD(U) chief with suspicion citing his quite a few ‘U-turns’.
Also a number of different opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi have hinted at prime ministerial ambitions.
“The people of the country and the leaders of the opposition parties would decide who would be the face against Modi in the 2024 general election,” Sinha, who had earlier served as Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib twice and likewise as Rajya Sabha MP on two events from the saffron social gathering, stated.
The newly elected TMC MP from Asansol praised Banerjee and reiterated she can be a “game changer” within the subsequent normal election.
Talking about BJP forming its governments in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra after defection in Congress and Shiv Sena respectively, Sinha stated, “They (the BJP) had been indulging in the toppling game using money power”.
“After khela (game) in West Bengal, the BJP has been cut to size following khela in Bihar,” he stated utilizing the well-known punchline of the TMC in the course of the West Bengal meeting polls in 2021.
Sinha had served within the Vajpayee cabinet together with each Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee and had on a number of events highlighted his cordial relationship with each of them.
The septuagenarian Parliamentarian had praised West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for preventing the BJP and defeating it comprehensively within the meeting polls within the japanese state in 2021.
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stands within the “front row” of the opposition camp together with Mamata Banerjee and others to finish the “Modi raj” within the nation within the 2024 normal election, former BJP chief and now Trinamool Congress MP Shatrughan Sinha stated on Wednesday.
Sinha stated the JD(U) chief has given the BJP a style of its personal drugs after it dislodged governments of opposition events in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
On who amongst Kumar and Banerjee may emerge because the opposition face in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the subsequent Lok Sabha ballot, the actor-politician informed PTI that the folks of the nation and leaders of the opposition events would determine it at an “appropriate” time.
Sinha, who had served as a cabinet minister within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities, has turn into a Lok Sabha member from Asansol in West Bengal not too long ago from Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Popularly known as “Bihari Babu”, the actor-politician bid goodbye to the BJP after being denied a ticket from his native Patna Sahib seat within the 2019 normal election.
Before parting methods with the saffron social gathering, Sinha had on a number of events focused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home minister Amit Shah utilizing the barb “one man party and two men army” in opposition to them.
After leaving the BJP, Sinha had unsuccessfully contested from the Patna Sahib constituency on a Congress ticket in 2019.
After mendacity low within the Congress, he converted to Trinamool Congress and Banerjee selected him for the by-election within the Asansol Lok Sabha seat vacated by Babul Supriyo.
“Better late than never, Nitish Kumar has given the BJP a taste of its own medicine that it administered in Madhya Pradesh and now in Maharashtra using its money power,” Sinha alleged.
He was in his native place Patna on the day Kumar took oath as chief minister of Bihar for the eighth time together with deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav.
“Due to his bold decision, Kumar today stands in the front row in the opposition camp along with Banerjee and others to lead the downfall of ‘Modi raj’ in the next Parliamentary election,” he stated.
Opposition events have claimed the JD(U) breaking ranks with the BJP and becoming a member of arms with the RJD, Congress and others is a sign of the change in Indian politics, asserting that their imaginative and prescient to struggle the saffron social gathering and its “politics of intimidation” has gained momentum.
Kumar, who has dumped the BJP for the second time after severing ties in 2013 and reconciling in 2017, is being talked about within the political circles as a possible opposition face in opposition to Modi in 2024 however many nonetheless view the JD(U) chief with suspicion citing his quite a few ‘U-turns’.
Also a number of different opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi have hinted at prime ministerial ambitions.
“The people of the country and the leaders of the opposition parties would decide who would be the face against Modi in the 2024 general election,” Sinha, who had earlier served as Lok Sabha member from Patna Sahib twice and likewise as Rajya Sabha MP on two events from the saffron social gathering, stated.
The newly elected TMC MP from Asansol praised Banerjee and reiterated she can be a “game changer” within the subsequent normal election.
Talking about BJP forming its governments in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra after defection in Congress and Shiv Sena respectively, Sinha stated, “They (the BJP) had been indulging in the toppling game using money power”.
“After khela (game) in West Bengal, the BJP has been cut to size following khela in Bihar,” he stated utilizing the well-known punchline of the TMC in the course of the West Bengal meeting polls in 2021.
Sinha had served within the Vajpayee cabinet together with each Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee and had on a number of events highlighted his cordial relationship with each of them.
The septuagenarian Parliamentarian had praised West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for preventing the BJP and defeating it comprehensively within the meeting polls within the japanese state in 2021.
