Political storm brews in Bihar as Nitish Kumar quits as occasion chief: Details

Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, has dropped a bombshell on its occasion as he give up as occasion chief. RCP Singh, a detailed confidant of Nitish Kumar, was chosen as the brand new president of JD (U) yesterday. Kumar had proposed the title of Singh for the highest publish, which was then permitted by different members through the occasion’s nationwide govt assembly. The chief minister, who was re-elected because the JD(U) president in 2019 for 3 years, relinquished the publish in favour of Singh, the occasion’s chief in Rajya Sabha.
After quitting as occasion chief, Nitish Kumar has reiterated that he had no want to develop into the Chief Minister of Bihar and that he all the time needed the mandate to be revered, regardless of who grew to become the CM.
During the JD(U)’s nationwide govt assembly, Nitish Kumar reportedly mentioned, “People are saying that the BJP wants the CM’s position. I do not care. I am not attached to the position.” Kumar claimed that he needed to take up the CM chair as a consequence of immense strain and he doesn’t care who takes up the Bihar sizzling seat.
“After the election results came, I made my wish known to the coalition. But the pressure was so much that I had to take up work again,” he added.
Interestingly, Nitish Kumar had ditched the BJP in 2016 Assembly Elections and created an alliance with the RJD and Congress, exactly to make sure that he turns into the Chief Minister. When the criticism in opposition to RJD began mounting, he had then once more ditched the RJD and re-joined BJP to proceed to be the Chief Minister.
Speculations are actually rife that his sudden epiphany that he by no means needed to be the Chief Minister of Bihar comes from his personal occasion MLAs abandoning the ship.
Recently, 6 JDU MLAs had give up the occasion to hitch BJP in Arunachal Pradesh, kicking up a large storm within the JDU. While the occasion management and senior leaders expressed displeasure over JDU MLAs becoming a member of alliance associate BJP, they mentioned that this transfer is unlikely to have an effect on the alliance in Bihar.