Via PTI
PATNA: Former Bihar Leader Minister Rabri Devi on Thursday indicated that she is not going to thoughts Nitish Kumar, her husband Lalu Prasad’s arch rival, vacating his chair for a luxurious project in Delhi.
The RJD chief was once replying to questions from newshounds who had been seeking to make sense of a reportedly off-the-cuff statement through Kumar which has caused livid speculations that he would possibly transfer to Delhi as the following Vice President of the rustic.
“He will have to cross. Everybody would love him to depart. (jana hello chahiye.Sabhi log chahenge ki chale jaayein”), she stated replying to queries concerning the cryptic statement made through Kumar that he were a member of each Homes within the state legislature and the Lok Sabha and a time period in Rajya Sabha would whole his political adventure.
To a pointed question about speculations that Kumar may just emerge because the BJP’s selection for the publish of Vice-President after the expiry of Venkaiah Naidu’s time period in a couple of months, the reticent Rabri Devi repied “achcha hello na rahega (will it now not be just right for him?)”.
Kumar is reported to have made the Rajya Sabha statement right through an off-the-cuff chat with some newshounds who had requested him about his contemporary excursion of spaces falling underneath the now abolished Barh Lok Sabha constituency which he had represented repeatedly.
The newshounds had queried, it appears in a jocular vein, whether or not Kumar had plans to contest parliamentary elections once more.
A bit of the media has since been operating studies speculating that the JD(U) chief, who has been in continual in Bihar since 2005 and has change into the longest serving Leader Minister of the state, may just transfer to Delhi for a best constitutional publish.
The studies additionally declare that he may conform to a brand new power-sharing components within the state the place the BJP, which had gained way more seats than the JD(U) within the 2020 meeting polls, might be allowed to have its personal Leader Minister.
By the way, Bihar stays the one state in all the “Hindi belt” the place the BJP hasn’t ever had its personal Leader Minister.
BJP leaders like MLA Vinay Bihari have brazenly pitched for “our personal CM” whilst taking care so as to add that the general choice rests with the nationwide management.
Upon returning to continual for his fourth consecutive time period in place of work, Kumar had claimed that he had, following the JD(U)’s slightly deficient efficiency in polls, expressed the will to step down and make method for the BJP however relented simplest after the alliance spouse insisted that he proceed occupying the highest publish.
Nevertheless, the state’s hyperactive hearsay invoice is busy popping out with names of BJP leaders who may just make it within the tournament of Kumar’s departure.
The “front-runners” come with Nityanand Rai, the Minister of State for House recognized to be depended on through each Top Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah , whose elevation brings the promise of breaching the sway of the RJD, the primary opposition birthday party, over the sizeable Yadav group.
In the meantime, all eyes are mounted at your next step through Kumar, a deft participant of the sport of politics, who had cryptically advised an election rally in 2020 that it was once his “aakhiri chunav”, simplest to reiterate later “I will be able to proceed to paintings for the folks of Bihar for so long as they want”.