Contemporary Delhi: As the joys around Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar turning into the joint Opposition candidate for the Top Minister’s submit grows, his party, the Janata Dal (United), acknowledged on Friday that if all assorted parties need it, this is in a position to be an option. Mr Sharad Yadav, a toddle-setter of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the JD(U)’s unusual political ally in Bihar, additionally acknowledged Mr Kumar might perchance perchance be the prime ministerial candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Mr Nitish Kumar’s likelihood to shatter ties with the BJP, his ally since 1996 with the exception of for a interval between 2013-17, has an increasing model of fuelled speculation about his imaginable prime ministerial direct.
JD(U) president Lalan Singh acknowledged that Mr Kumar’s predominant point of curiosity became once on uniting the Opposition parties to select on the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and that he’ll search advice from the nationwide capital to meet leaders from varied parties after the vote of self belief within the Bihar Meeting next week. The JD(U) president and Lok Sabha MP acknowledged many Opposition leaders, including Sharad Pawar and Arvind Kejriwal, had called up Mr Kumar to congratulate him after he lower off ties with the BJP and allied with its competitors to form a brand unusual government in Bihar. He acknowledged all Opposition parties might perchance serene take a seat together to specialize in on the leadership to select on the BJP led by Top Minister Narendra Modi within the next Lok Sabha polls.
Some of the Opposition parties serene watch the JD(U) leader with suspicion citing his varied “U-turns”. Some Opposition leaders additionally pointed out that Mr Kumar became once one amongst several leaders with prime ministerial ambitions, including West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Telangana CM Okay. Chandrashekar Rao, moreover Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Mr Nitish Kumar has, on the opposite hand, refused to answer to questions about him being the Opposition’s prime ministerial face within the Lok Sabha elections.
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