‘Nitish Ought to Be Made Dy PM’: Senior BJP Chief Choubey Shares Private ‘Want’ | India Information
Senior BJP chief and former Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Thursday voiced a “private” opinion that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ought to be made the Deputy Prime Minister.
Speaking to reporters in Bihar, the BJP chief, who had served in Kumar’s Cupboard earlier than shifting to the Centre, mentioned he needed to see the JD(U) supremo because the second Deputy PM from Bihar, after the late Jagjivan Ram.
“Nitish Kumar’s contribution to the NDA is large. He has been strengthening the arms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by enjoying the function of an anchor within the coalition. It’s my private want that he be made the Deputy Prime Minister,” he mentioned.
“If the want is granted, Bihar will see the second son of its soil, after Babu Jagjivan Ram, rising to the workplace”, mentioned Choubey.
The remarks come within the backdrop of speculations in a piece of the media that the 74-year-old JD(U) supremo, who needs to run for a fifth consecutive time period in meeting polls due later this 12 months, could also be supplied an “honourable exit” by the BJP, which was fed up with enjoying second fiddle to Kumar in Bihar.
BJP leaders just like the late Sushil Kumar Modi have even claimed that Kumar had needed to grow to be the Vice President and stop the NDA, in 2022, in protest towards not being thought of for the highest Constitutional put up.
Nevertheless, remarks of Choubey who was denied a ticket in final 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls, have been made mild of by the JD(U) in addition to the opposition occasion RJD.
JD(U) MLC and spokesperson Neeraj Kumar cited Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s newest interview to a information channel to underscore that “all NDA companions acknowledge the chief minister because the coalition’s chief for the upcoming meeting polls”.
RJD spokesperson Ejaz Ahmed belittled Choubey, calling him “a self-proclaimed spokesperson of the BJP, sidelined by his personal occasion which isn’t keen to accommodate him or his son”.
“In fact, the BJP needs to eliminate Nitish Kumar. However Choubey ought to realise that the CM’s chair can be occupied by our chief Tejashwi Yadav. All BJP leaders might daydream in regards to the highest seat of energy in Bihar,” the RJD chief mentioned.
