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PATNA: Two days after a senior JD-U minister claimed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has the entire skills to transform President, JD-U nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Saturday scotched all speculations over it by means of saying Nitish would no longer be a Presidential candidate.
JD-U leader Lalan Singh, additionally the celebration MP from Munger, stated, “Nitish Ji is neither a candidate nor he’s going to transform President. He has were given the mandate to serve other people of the state until 2025.”
Senior JD-U minister Shravan Kumar had created a flutter in political circles when he commented that Nitish possessed the entire qualities to transform the President a couple of hours after the Election Fee introduced Presidential election time table on Thursday.
But even so Lalan, two different ministerial colleague of Nitish Kumar — Sanjay Kumar Jha and Ashok Choudhary—heaped praises on Nitish pronouncing that despite the fact that Nitish possessed the entire qualities for the put up, he used to be no longer desperate to be within the race for the President’s put up.
The primary opposition celebration, RJD, additionally prolonged its beef up to Nitish if he used to be declared Presidential candidate. It could be a question of delight for Bihar if someone from the state turns into President, the celebration commented. Previous too, there have been speculations over Nitish Kumar being projected as Presidential or Vice Presidential applicants however he had himself rejected a lot of these conjectures.
However the problem revived after the JD-U minister Shravan’s observation on CM as Presidential candidate. However it’s nonetheless shrouded in thriller why Shravan pitched for making Nitish a Presidential candidate when different senior JD-U leaders needed to explain later that Nitish would no longer be presidential candidate.
Two different senior JDU ministers- Sanjay Jha and Ashok Choudhary- had additionally previous stated that Nitish had no need to transform President and would proceed to serve the folks until 2025.
On being contacted, Shravan Kumar, who hang rural building portfolio, stated, “Such sorts of talks stay on doing the rounds within the air given his (Nitish) lengthy and illustrious political profession. However the truth is that he no lust to transform both the High Minister or the President.”
The reversal of JD-U’s stand at the factor got here quickly after some BJP leaders took a dig at JD-U for projecting Nitish Kumar as Presidential candidate. “It isn’t that just one individual merits this put up. There are literally thousands of other people within the nation who’ve the qualities to transform the President,’ remarked state agriculture minister Raghvendra Pratap Singh.
Singh is a cupboard minister from BJP quota.