Why Haryana CM Saini’s Comment Prompted Unease Inside NDA Forward Of Bihar Polls? Can BJP Afford To Substitute Nitish Kumar As CM? | India Information
Bihar Meeting Election 2025: The Bihar meeting elections are six months away and the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) is attempting its greatest to maintain its flock collectively. After the preliminary rumblings after Union House Minister Amit Shah’s comment over the Chief Minister face of the alliance, now, it is Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini who has sparked a row.
Whereas talking at an occasion in Haryana, Saini mentioned that Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Samrat Choudhary would “hoist the flag of victory” within the upcoming Meeting elections — a press release that left the get together speeding to comprise the fallout.
The remark was rapidly seized upon by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which urged Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) to hunt readability from its alliance companion, the BJP, over Saini’s remarks.
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The occasion the place Saini made the remark was attended by a number of senior NDA leaders, together with Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, former Maharashtra Deputy CM Chhagan Bhujbal, and Rajya Sabha members Upendra Kushwaha and Kalpana Saini.
Although the assertion brought about a stir in Bihar, the BJP’s Haryana unit avoided issuing an official response, and get together members downplayed the remark. Sanjay Ahuja, media coordinator for the Haryana BJP, defended the Chief Minister, stating that Saini merely supposed to convey that the NDA would as soon as once more type the federal government in Bihar and that the choice on the chief ministerial candidate could be taken collectively by NDA leaders.
In the meantime, BJP leaders in Bihar reaffirmed their dedication to Nitish Kumar because the face of the NDA within the state. Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal emphasised that the coalition would contest the Meeting elections beneath Nitish’s management, leaving no room for ambiguity.
Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary additionally stepped in to quell hypothesis, firmly stating that he was not within the race for the highest submit. “Nitish Kumar stays the only real chief of our alliance, and the following election will likely be fought beneath his management,” he mentioned.
Whereas the opposition-led by Tejashwi Yadav has been terming Nitish Kumar unfit and unwell for the highest submit, consultants are of the opinion that the BJP may push for the CM submit after the ballot outcomes, similar to in Maharashtra elections. Since Nitish Kumar’s JDU has been enjoying a kingmaker for the final 4 elections, the BJP can not afford to upset him. The saffron get together seems to have taken a safer stand by sustaining that the NDA will likely be headed by Kumar within the polls. If the NDA retains energy, the CM face might be shocking in Bihar and Kumar may even see himself being moved to the nationwide politics.
