Ravi Shankar Prasad Takes On Nitish Kumar

Ravi Shankar Prasad Takes On Nitish Kumar [ad_1]

New Delhi:

The BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad right now ripped into Nitish Kumar, alleging that Bihar's five-time Chief Minister had insulted the folks's mandate together with his second break up from the BJP. Mr Kumar, he mentioned, received two mandates -- in 2019 and 2020 -- due to Narendra Modi, however broke the alliance with the BJP.

"We have now a query for Nitish Kumar," the previous Union Minister advised reporters.

"Did he not win the 2020 election by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's management? Did you win the 2019 election by yourself steam? Your 14 males went to the Lok Sabha. You may have insulted the mandate of Bihar. How may you do this?" he added.

Mr Kumar, he mentioned, give up the sooner Grand Alliance with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal citing corruption and joined the BJP.

"So what occurred right now? Has corruption ended? So why do you repeatedly insult the mandate of the folks of Bihar?" he mentioned.

There was a second query.

"If the BJP bothered you a lot, why you probably did you keep on? You may have mentioned goodbye in 2020," Mr Prasad mentioned.
Mr Kumar ended the alliance with the BJP right now and staked declare to type a brand new authorities with Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal and different events.

Earlier right now, sources within the BJP mentioned the occasion had made no try and cease Nitish Kumar regardless of realizing concerning the impending break up.
This, sources mentioned, was as a result of the BJP is bound that Nitish Kumar has nationwide ambitions and sees main the opposition within the 2024 normal elections as a greater possibility.

Nitish Kumar took the decisive step after speaking his anger for lengthy. Over the previous couple of weeks, he skipped a number of occasions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Residence Minister Amit Shah.

Sources mentioned Mr Kumar feared that the BJP was attempting to separate his Janata Dal United the way in which they'd engineered a break up within the Shiv SEna and toppled Uddhav Thackeray's authorities.

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