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  • In a position to embody JD(U) if Nitish breaks ranks with BJP, says RJD

    By means of PTI

    PATNA: Amid a brewing political typhoon in Bihar, the opposition RJD on Monday stated it was once in a position to “embody” Leader Minister Nitish Kumar and his JD(U) if he broke ranks with the BJP.

    RJD nationwide vice-president Shivanand Tiwary stated that convening conferences of legislators by means of each events on Tuesday had been a transparent indication that the placement was once unusual.

    “In my opinion, It’s not that i am acutely aware of the goings on. However we can not forget about the truth that each events, which in combination had enough numbers to muster a majority, have convened such conferences when an meeting consultation isn’t not far away,” Tiwary instructed newshounds right here.

    “If Nitish chooses to offload NDA, what selection do we have now except for to embody him (‘gale lagaenge’). RJD is dedicated to combating the BJP. If the manager minister makes a decision to enroll in this struggle, we will be able to need to take him alongside,” stated Tiwary.

    He was once additionally requested whether or not the RJD can be keen to put out of your mind sour episodes of the previous, like Kumar’s go back to the NDA in 2017, bringing up allegations of corruption in opposition to Lalu Prasad and his members of the family, together with a more youthful son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav, who was once then his deputy.

    “In politics, we can not stay prisoners of the previous. We socialists had began off opposing the Congress which was once then in energy. However, even the Emergency imposed by means of Indira Gandhi was once imposed by means of invoking the Charter. The BJP, which has now turn out to be a behemoth, turns out out to damage the Charter. We need to reply to the demanding situations of the days,” Tiwary stated.

    Speculations of but any other political volte-face by means of Kumar had been fuelled by means of his skipping the farewell of former President Ram Nath Kovind and the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu and, extra just lately, the NITI Aayog assembly chaired by means of Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.

    JD(U) has sought to make mild of Kumar’s absence on the purposes, bringing up its give a boost to to NDA in elections for President and Vice-President and likewise pointing towards the truth that the manager minister had then examined certain for COVID-19.

    Submit-COVID debility could also be stated to had been cited by means of Kumar whilst expressing his lack of ability to wait the NITI Aayog assembly.

    On the other hand, on the exact same day, he was once observed at multiple tournament, even sharing the dais at this sort of with cupboard colleagues belonging to the BJP.

    On Monday, he held his weekly public interplay programme once more, having recuperated from the feared virus.

    Amongst the ones provide on the ‘Janta Ke Durbaar Mein Mukhyamantri’ programme was once deputy CM Tarkishor Prasad, who could also be the BJP’s chief in the home.

    Former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) is an NDA best friend, alternatively, claimed there was once no disaster within the ruling coalition.

    “In JD(U), it’s Nitish Kumar who calls the photographs. He has no longer stated the rest to this point. I have no idea what he’s precisely considering, however had he deliberate any primary transfer, he would have given me a touch. I will be able to, alternatively, attempt to communicate to him,” Manjhi, whose son is a minister, and who had as soon as agreed to merge his celebration with JD(U), stated.

    In the meantime, AICC nationwide secretary and MLA Shakil Ahmed Khan stated no matter was once taking place in Bihar was once “shubh sanket” (a excellent signal) as “the BJP, which has a historical past of making bother for its allies, is getting a style of its personal drugs”.

    He, alternatively, declined to touch upon stories in a piece of the media that Kumar spoke to senior Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the telephone Sunday evening.

    In the meantime, state BJP leaders had been keeping up a studied silence, it sounds as if upon the recommendation of the highest management to rein of their loquacity, which might rock the boat.

    Union House Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda, at the side of different nationwide workplace bearers, had visited the town a fortnight in the past.

    The highest brass perceived to have sensed the straws within the wind at the moment as obvious from a press observation then reaffirming religion within the management of Nitish Kumar, which has, alternatively, failed to provoke the JD(U).

    PATNA: Amid a brewing political typhoon in Bihar, the opposition RJD on Monday stated it was once in a position to “embody” Leader Minister Nitish Kumar and his JD(U) if he broke ranks with the BJP.

    RJD nationwide vice-president Shivanand Tiwary stated that convening conferences of legislators by means of each events on Tuesday had been a transparent indication that the placement was once unusual.

    “In my opinion, It’s not that i am acutely aware of the goings on. However we can not forget about the truth that each events, which in combination had enough numbers to muster a majority, have convened such conferences when an meeting consultation isn’t not far away,” Tiwary instructed newshounds right here.

    “If Nitish chooses to offload NDA, what selection do we have now except for to embody him (‘gale lagaenge’). RJD is dedicated to combating the BJP. If the manager minister makes a decision to enroll in this struggle, we will be able to need to take him alongside,” stated Tiwary.

    He was once additionally requested whether or not the RJD can be keen to put out of your mind sour episodes of the previous, like Kumar’s go back to the NDA in 2017, bringing up allegations of corruption in opposition to Lalu Prasad and his members of the family, together with a more youthful son and inheritor obvious Tejashwi Yadav, who was once then his deputy.

    “In politics, we can not stay prisoners of the previous. We socialists had began off opposing the Congress which was once then in energy. However, even the Emergency imposed by means of Indira Gandhi was once imposed by means of invoking the Charter. The BJP, which has now turn out to be a behemoth, turns out out to damage the Charter. We need to reply to the demanding situations of the days,” Tiwary stated.

    Speculations of but any other political volte-face by means of Kumar had been fuelled by means of his skipping the farewell of former President Ram Nath Kovind and the swearing-in of Droupadi Murmu and, extra just lately, the NITI Aayog assembly chaired by means of Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.

    JD(U) has sought to make mild of Kumar’s absence on the purposes, bringing up its give a boost to to NDA in elections for President and Vice-President and likewise pointing towards the truth that the manager minister had then examined certain for COVID-19.

    Submit-COVID debility could also be stated to had been cited by means of Kumar whilst expressing his lack of ability to wait the NITI Aayog assembly.

    On the other hand, on the exact same day, he was once observed at multiple tournament, even sharing the dais at this sort of with cupboard colleagues belonging to the BJP.

    On Monday, he held his weekly public interplay programme once more, having recuperated from the feared virus.

    Amongst the ones provide on the ‘Janta Ke Durbaar Mein Mukhyamantri’ programme was once deputy CM Tarkishor Prasad, who could also be the BJP’s chief in the home.

    Former leader minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) is an NDA best friend, alternatively, claimed there was once no disaster within the ruling coalition.

    “In JD(U), it’s Nitish Kumar who calls the photographs. He has no longer stated the rest to this point. I have no idea what he’s precisely considering, however had he deliberate any primary transfer, he would have given me a touch. I will be able to, alternatively, attempt to communicate to him,” Manjhi, whose son is a minister, and who had as soon as agreed to merge his celebration with JD(U), stated.

    In the meantime, AICC nationwide secretary and MLA Shakil Ahmed Khan stated no matter was once taking place in Bihar was once “shubh sanket” (a excellent signal) as “the BJP, which has a historical past of making bother for its allies, is getting a style of its personal drugs”.

    He, alternatively, declined to touch upon stories in a piece of the media that Kumar spoke to senior Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the telephone Sunday evening.

    In the meantime, state BJP leaders had been keeping up a studied silence, it sounds as if upon the recommendation of the highest management to rein of their loquacity, which might rock the boat.

    Union House Minister Amit Shah and BJP President JP Nadda, at the side of different nationwide workplace bearers, had visited the town a fortnight in the past.

    The highest brass perceived to have sensed the straws within the wind at the moment as obvious from a press observation then reaffirming religion within the management of Nitish Kumar, which has, alternatively, failed to provoke the JD(U).

  • ‘I practise politics of positivity’: Chirag hits again at JDU after being blamed for its decline

    Via PTI

    PATNA: Former Lok Janshakti Celebration leader Chirag Paswan on Sunday hit again at Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which has accused him for its personal debacle within the 2020 meeting polls.

    Paswan got here out with a flurry of tweets in keeping with allegation of “Chirag type at paintings” through JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan at a press convention right here.

    “I practise politics of positivity and don’t constitute any type. Those that had engineered infights at the moment are themselves confronted with inside strife. They’d do smartly now not search for reasons out at the streets,” Paswan tweeted.

    The allusion used to be to the rise up through his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, which resulted in a cut up within the LJP based through his past due father Ram Vilas Paswan, and turmoil within the JD(U) following former nationwide president RCP Singh’s resignation.

    He additionally took a veiled dig at Kumar over speculations of but every other political volte-face, drawing an analogy from the Mahabharata.

    “Like Kansa, he is attempting to kill each and every kid of Devaki. First, it used to be my flip. Now it’s of RCP. However he isn’t conscious about the incarnation of Krishna, his political slayer. Even leaping send will likely be of no assist this time,” Paswan added in a cryptic tweet.

    PATNA: Former Lok Janshakti Celebration leader Chirag Paswan on Sunday hit again at Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which has accused him for its personal debacle within the 2020 meeting polls.

    Paswan got here out with a flurry of tweets in keeping with allegation of “Chirag type at paintings” through JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan at a press convention right here.

    “I practise politics of positivity and don’t constitute any type. Those that had engineered infights at the moment are themselves confronted with inside strife. They’d do smartly now not search for reasons out at the streets,” Paswan tweeted.

    The allusion used to be to the rise up through his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, which resulted in a cut up within the LJP based through his past due father Ram Vilas Paswan, and turmoil within the JD(U) following former nationwide president RCP Singh’s resignation.

    He additionally took a veiled dig at Kumar over speculations of but every other political volte-face, drawing an analogy from the Mahabharata.

    “Like Kansa, he is attempting to kill each and every kid of Devaki. First, it used to be my flip. Now it’s of RCP. However he isn’t conscious about the incarnation of Krishna, his political slayer. Even leaping send will likely be of no assist this time,” Paswan added in a cryptic tweet.

  • Nitish Kumar’s ‘hanuman’ RCP Singh quits JD-U after corruption fees

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    PATNA: Former Union minister RCP Singh resigned from number one club of Janata Dal (United) on Saturday, just a few hours after he used to be charged with corruption and accumulating of large wealth.

    Singh, as soon as thought to be as ‘hanuman’ of Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar, hinted at forming a brand new birthday celebration quickly. He had resigned from Union Cupboard after his time period of Rajya Sabha got here to an finish on July 7.

    Describing JD-U as a ‘sinking send’, Singh exhorted his supporters to accompany him. “Aap sabhi log mere saath chaliye. JD-U ab dubta hua jahaj hai (You all include me. JD-U is now a sinking send),” he added.

    He alleged that the corruption fees had been levelled towards him by means of some birthday celebration staff beneath a conspiracy. The fees of corruption had been levelled by means of two leaders of his house district Nalanda, a fee denied by means of Singh.

    In line with the allegations, Singh had bought 58 plots of land beneath two blocks of Nalanda district between 2013 and 2022. The plots had been bought within the identify of his spouse and two daughters, together with an IPS officer.

    Taking cognisance of the allegations, JD-U state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha issued a display purpose realize to Singh asking him to respond on the earliest. Kushwaha mentioned the allegations towards Singh had been severe in nature.

    Former Union minister and JD-U parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha mentioned for the reason that topic has come into public area, investigating company might take suo motu cognisance of the fees levelled towards Singh.

    Responding to a question, Upendra Kushwaha mentioned that the birthday celebration first sought after answer of Singh at the factor. “Birthday celebration phir apna kaam karegi (birthday celebration will take motion accordingly),” he asserted.

    Singh had served as nationwide president of JD-U sooner than he used to be inducted in union cupboard and made metal minister within the Narendra Modi govt. Singh’s courting with Nitish were given strained after he used to be denied nomination for Rajya Sabha for the 3rd time period. He had joined JD-U after taking voluntary retire from IAS in 2010.

    Therefore he used to be appointed normal secretary of JD-U. He owed political good fortune to his proximity with Nitish throughout the latter’s tenure as railway minister on the centre.

    When Nitish was leader minister of Bihar, Singh used to be dropped at Bihar from his house cadre Uttar Pradesh and made most important secretary to leader minister, a put up he held until he opted voluntary retire from provider. He used to be made nationwide president of the birthday celebration in January ultimate 12 months after Nitish Kumar relinquished the put up beneath ‘one guy one put up coverage’, which he were protecting for the previous a number of years.

    PATNA: Former Union minister RCP Singh resigned from number one club of Janata Dal (United) on Saturday, just a few hours after he used to be charged with corruption and accumulating of large wealth.

    Singh, as soon as thought to be as ‘hanuman’ of Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar, hinted at forming a brand new birthday celebration quickly. He had resigned from Union Cupboard after his time period of Rajya Sabha got here to an finish on July 7.

    Describing JD-U as a ‘sinking send’, Singh exhorted his supporters to accompany him. “Aap sabhi log mere saath chaliye. JD-U ab dubta hua jahaj hai (You all include me. JD-U is now a sinking send),” he added.

    He alleged that the corruption fees had been levelled towards him by means of some birthday celebration staff beneath a conspiracy. The fees of corruption had been levelled by means of two leaders of his house district Nalanda, a fee denied by means of Singh.

    In line with the allegations, Singh had bought 58 plots of land beneath two blocks of Nalanda district between 2013 and 2022. The plots had been bought within the identify of his spouse and two daughters, together with an IPS officer.

    Taking cognisance of the allegations, JD-U state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha issued a display purpose realize to Singh asking him to respond on the earliest. Kushwaha mentioned the allegations towards Singh had been severe in nature.

    Former Union minister and JD-U parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha mentioned for the reason that topic has come into public area, investigating company might take suo motu cognisance of the fees levelled towards Singh.

    Responding to a question, Upendra Kushwaha mentioned that the birthday celebration first sought after answer of Singh at the factor. “Birthday celebration phir apna kaam karegi (birthday celebration will take motion accordingly),” he asserted.

    Singh had served as nationwide president of JD-U sooner than he used to be inducted in union cupboard and made metal minister within the Narendra Modi govt. Singh’s courting with Nitish were given strained after he used to be denied nomination for Rajya Sabha for the 3rd time period. He had joined JD-U after taking voluntary retire from IAS in 2010.

    Therefore he used to be appointed normal secretary of JD-U. He owed political good fortune to his proximity with Nitish throughout the latter’s tenure as railway minister on the centre.

    When Nitish was leader minister of Bihar, Singh used to be dropped at Bihar from his house cadre Uttar Pradesh and made most important secretary to leader minister, a put up he held until he opted voluntary retire from provider. He used to be made nationwide president of the birthday celebration in January ultimate 12 months after Nitish Kumar relinquished the put up beneath ‘one guy one put up coverage’, which he were protecting for the previous a number of years.

  • Dhananjay Singh: Distance in Bihar, proximity to tainted faces in UP… Know what’s the preparation of JDU thru Dhananjay Singh

    Lucknow: Is Janata Dal United going to do political growth in Uttar Pradesh? The query is for the reason that birthday celebration has given position to 4 leaders of UP within the govt. The most important title in that is Dhananjay Singh. Dhananjay Singh, a two-time MLA and one-time MP from Jaunpur, could also be identified as Bahubali. In this kind of state of affairs, simplest the JDU leaders of the state are elevating questions at the collection of Dhananjay Singh on behalf of JDU’s nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh. Questions also are being raised in regards to the insurance policies of Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar. The most important explanation why at the back of this could also be JDU’s coverage relating to tainted faces. In Bihar, JDU appears to be making distance from tainted faces. On the identical time, it’s striking tainted faces at the posts in UP.

    Dhananjay Singh had contested the 2022 UP elections on a JDU price tag from the Malhani meeting seat of Jaunpur. Then again, the birthday celebration may no longer win this election. Just lately a case has been registered in opposition to him. His title has surfaced within the homicide case of Mafia Ajit Singh. Previous, his title has additionally surfaced within the homicide case of jailed mafia Munna Bajrangi. UP Police has additionally stored a praise of 25 thousand in opposition to Dhananjay Singh. Within the 12 months 2002, Dhananjay Singh gained the meeting elections for the primary time. He has been an impartial MLA. Now they appear to be part of the group growth in JDU’s UP.

    Is JDU trapped by way of making a bet on absconding prize?
    JDU has guess on absconding prize. Referring to this, the query is being raised by way of the leaders of JDU of the state whether or not it’s going to be proper for the birthday celebration? In Bihar, the birthday celebration appears to be separated from the contaminated faces. Just lately, JDU had expelled Anant Singh from the birthday celebration for a similar explanation why, as a result of his symbol used to be affecting the great governance symbol of Nitish Kumar. In a similar way, the birthday celebration has been distancing itself from different tainted faces. Now the politics of UP has been heated by way of making Dhananjay Singh the nationwide normal secretary.

    Announcement made after Nadda’s talk over with to Bihar
    JDU nationwide president Lalan Singh has given a spot to 4 folks within the group, indicating the growth of the group in UP. All this took place at the day when BJP Nationwide President JP Nadda used to be discussing with the group in Patna, the capital of Bihar. BJP is getting ready a method for its growth within the state. On the identical time, JDU has made it transparent with this step that it’s going to additionally support its group within the newly constructed citadel of BJP in Uttar Pradesh. Political pundits also are seeing the transfer of JDU President from this standpoint.

  • Bihar CM Nitish Kumar assessments sure for COVID-19, isolates self at house

    By means of PTI

    PATNA: Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has examined sure for COVID-19 and remoted himself at his place of abode at the recommendation of docs, officers stated on Tuesday.

    Kumar had additionally reduced in size the virus in January this 12 months and skilled delicate signs, they stated.

    “At the recommendation of docs, he has remoted himself at his place of abode. He used to be no longer feeling smartly for the remaining two-three days,” a commentary issued via the Leader Minister’s Administrative center (CMO) stated.

    “The CM has asked all those that got here involved with him within the remaining two-three days to get themselves examined and take essential precautions,” it added.

    A senior professional stated Kumar may just no longer attend the swearing in rite of President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Monday as he used to be no longer holding smartly.

    PATNA: Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has examined sure for COVID-19 and remoted himself at his place of abode at the recommendation of docs, officers stated on Tuesday.

    Kumar had additionally reduced in size the virus in January this 12 months and skilled delicate signs, they stated.

    “At the recommendation of docs, he has remoted himself at his place of abode. He used to be no longer feeling smartly for the remaining two-three days,” a commentary issued via the Leader Minister’s Administrative center (CMO) stated.

    “The CM has asked all those that got here involved with him within the remaining two-three days to get themselves examined and take essential precautions,” it added.

    A senior professional stated Kumar may just no longer attend the swearing in rite of President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi on Monday as he used to be no longer holding smartly.

  • BJP minister takes umbrage at transfers cleared via him being overruled via Nitish

    By way of PTI

    PATNA: A BJP minister in Bihar on Sunday expressed indignation over a bulk of transfers and postings, which he had cleared, being placed on grasp via Leader Minister Nitish Kumar who it seems that took notice of allegations of irregularities.

    Transfers and postings of a number of officers of the income and land reforms division have been cleared overdue final month via Ram Surat Rai, the minister involved, best to be vetoed via the CM’s administrative center a couple of days later.

    Allegations surfaced in a bit of the click that some officers got plum postings in spite of taints of corruption and plenty of have been transferred in spite of having served for lower than 3 years at their present puts of posting.

    “I had cleared the transfers and postings exercising the powers vested in me because the minister. It’s the leader minister’s prerogative to permit or reject those,” Rai advised newshounds with an air of dejection.

    The minister denied allegations of tainted officers being favoured however admitted that many have been granted transfers out of flip following requests they made themselves or via some MLA.

    “We ministers also are public representatives. If some respectable manner us immediately or sends a phrase via an MLA, asking for that she or he be given a posting in a district with regards to where the place his or her partner is operating, we need to act on such requests,” mentioned Rai who has earned a name for outspokenness within the lower than two years he has been a minister.

    He mentioned that he understood the “particular privilege” the manager minister enjoys and has exercised however minced no phrases in describing the “thes” (harm) he felt over being overruled.

    When some reporters requested him, if, within the gentle of allegations of irregularities, he feared dropping his ministerial submit, Rai snapped announcing “this chair isn’t someone’s ancestral belongings. If the federal government thinks I don’t should proceed, I want it easiest of success to seek out any individual extra worthy than I’m”.

    To a query whether or not he idea ministers belonging to the BJP felt “dabaav” (power) below the overbearing management of the manager minister, who belongs to JD(U), Rai mentioned with a swagger, “Folks in BJP have no idea the best way to buckle below power.”

    On the other hand, he hastened so as to add “no person within the executive purposes below any form of power. Even JD(U) ministers serve as freely”.

    In the meantime, the BJP for which the JD(U)’s antagonistic stance over Agnipath has rung alarm bells, sought to distance itself from the subject involving the manager minister and his cupboard colleague.

    “The celebration believes the problem will likely be amicably resolved as soon as the manager minister has a phrase with Ram Surat Rai,” BJP spokesperson Arvind Kumar Singh mentioned in a observation.

    Even though a bit of BJP leaders in Bihar gloat over the truth that it has extra numbers within the meeting than the JD(U), and that it additionally laws the Centre, many appear averse to tense Kumar, the de facto chief of the JD(U) which is these days the NDA’s second-largest best friend.

    The celebration has, particularly, maintained a telling silence over the JD(U)’s contemporary belligerence in opposition to “BJP sympathisers” like former spokesman Ajay Alok, who has been expelled, and previous nationwide president RCP Singh who misplaced his berth in Union cupboard upon denial of any other time period in Rajya Sabha.

  • Prashant Kishor scoffs CM Nitish Kumar on street prerequisites of Bihar

    By means of PTI

    PATNA: ‘Jan Suraaj’ marketing campaign convenor Prashant Kishor on Thursday sought to puncture his former mentor Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s claims of getting given a face-lift to the state’s roads.

    Kishor, who’s traveling the state as a spade-work for full-time release into politics, shared on his Twitter care for a picture of a countrywide freeway passing thru Madhubani district which, he mentioned, reminded him of the “jungle raj of Nineteen Nineties”. “Nitish ji had lately informed officers of street development division that they will have to inform the folks in regards to the situation of roads within the state”, Kishor tweeted, with slightly hid sarcasm.

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    अभी हाल में ही #Nitishkumar जी एक कार्यक्रम में पथ निर्माण विभाग के लोगों को बोल रहे थे कि बिहार में सड़कों की अच्छी स्थिति के बारे में उन्हें सबको बताना चाहिए। %.twitter.com/Qp0ehEluty

    — Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) June 23, 2022

    “Jungle raj of Nineteen Nineties” used to be a connection with the husband-wife duo Lalu Prasad and RJD who in combination dominated Bihar for 15 years till the defeat in their RJD by means of the NDA headed by means of Kumar in 2005. Lawlessness and abysmal state of roads have been the 2 number one counts on which the RJD confronted complaint.

    Kishor, who had helped the Lalu-Nitish alliance clinch a victory within the 2015 meeting polls and officially joined the JDU, then headed by means of Kumar, as his quantity two a few years later, now feels that the 2 leaders have let the state down.

    Having given up his occupation which gave him the chance to rub shoulders with the who is who of Indian politics, Kishor has pop out with the promise of transformational, bottom-up politics in his house state.

    Even supposing no response got here from the state’s ruling dispensation on Kishor’s tweet, the Union Ministry for Street Shipping and Highways reacted to a newspaper file that the IPAC founder had shared. “The paintings on NH discussed within the article will likely be performed by means of NHAI. Alternatively, the street is but to be passed over by means of the State Executive. The paintings at the mentioned undertaking will start in two weeks,” the ministry tweeted.

    By the way, Kishor had shot to status after handing High Minister Narendra Modi’s stupendously a success election marketing campaign of 2014 which noticed the then Gujarat Leader Minister guidance the BJP to a convincing majority within the Lok Sabha.

  • ‘Agnipath’ will not be roiling Bihar anymore however JDU-BJP ties stay at the rocks

    Via PTI

    PATNA: Violent protests in opposition to ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment within the militia will have fizzled out in Bihar inside every week of eruption however the discord those brought about between Leader Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and best friend BJP turns out to have solid a protracted shadow at the coalition.

    The JD(U), which has taken as an affront to its chief the complaint of the BJP of the management’s dealing with of remaining week’s depredations, is now insistent on reviving the ‘coordination committee’ that existed throughout the Atal Bihari Vajpayee technology and served as a platform the place variations amongst allies have been ironed out.

    “The NDA coordination committee, again then, was once chaired via our chief George Fernandes. It used to fulfill each and every month. Now, within the absence of this kind of platform, folks generally tend to voice their variations of opinion ahead of the media as an alternative of ahead of every different,” JD(U) leader nationwide basic secretary Okay C Tyagi instructed PTI.

    Tyagi additionally took sturdy exception to “second-rung BJP leaders in Bihar belittling our chief once in a while”, announcing that “no one within the JD(U) has ever been disrespectful against Top Minister Narendra Modi”.

    “The 2 events have distinct ideologies. However steadily leaders of the BJP categorical their ideological place in some way that turns out to cock a snook at us and our chief”, Tyagi mentioned, mentioning the examples of inhabitants regulate invoice, uniform civil code and a national NRC.

    The veteran JD(U) chief additionally appears to be miffed with the swagger many BJP leaders generally tend to show whilst flaunting their standing as a “numerically awesome” alliance spouse.

    He seeks to remind the BJP that “announcement of Kumar as the executive ministerial candidate within the thick of meeting elections in November 2005, had helped the NDA clinch a decisive victory and unseat the apparently invincible Lalu Prasad”.

    He additionally items to a couple BJP leaders’ rivalry that Kumar, who had allied with Prasad a couple of years in the past, used to be an unreliable best friend, mentioning “in 2010 meeting polls, we had gained 115 seats, handiest seven in need of a complete majority. We may have junked the BJP in an try to undercut it and nonetheless controlled to shape a central authority. However we didn’t accomplish that”.

    The break-up got here 3 years later, with the ascendance of Narendra Modi, then the executive minister of Gujarat, who used to be deemed too debatable for his alleged position in post-Godhra riots, for allies like Kumar who’ve studiously cultivated a “secular” symbol.

    “The BJP leaders in Bihar must additionally know Nitish Kumar didn’t wish to turn into the CM for the fourth consecutive time period. They needs to be mindful that he agreed handiest after being pressed to proceed via their birthday celebration’s most sensible management in Delhi”, mentioned Tyagi, who’s himself based totally within the nationwide capital.

    He additionally referred to the “conspiracy, hatched with the assistance of Chirag Paswan” that led to the JD(U) to lose its standing of the senior coalition spouse after the 2020 meeting elections.

    Even if Tyagi didn’t say it in as many phrases, it’s been an overriding sentiment within the JD(U) rank and document that Chirag had introduced his rise up in opposition to the Bihar CM with the tacit approval of the BJP.

    The son of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan and president of the birthday celebration till its break up remaining 12 months, Chirag have been a self-proclaimed loyalist of Top Minister Narendra Modi whom he used to liken to Lord Ram whilst evaluating himself to “Hanuman” relating to devotion.

    By the way, now left within the lurch via the BJP, which has embraced his renegade uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras and made him a Union minister, Chirag has since fallen aside with the BJP and used to be additionally sharply crucial of ‘Agnipath’ scheme.

    The BJP, which dreads the opportunity of shedding out Kumar to the opposition camp in a state the place it’s but to come back in its personal, appears to be in a temper to fix fences.

    “The whole thing is ok. Now there are not any issues. All our grievances had been addressed”, mentioned state BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal whose area used to be remaining week attacked via protesting mobs following which he accused the management of being complicit.

    JD(U) nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan flew off the care for in reaction, accusing Jaiswal of getting “misplaced his psychological stability” and seeking to “advise a seasoned administrator like Nitish Kumar”.

    A several-term MP who was the state president 3 years in the past, Jaiswal has been adopting a stance on problems like Bihar’s inhabitants expansion and its deficient building indices as highlighted via Niti Aayog, which galvanize the JD(U), making its leaders suspect that the best friend used to be out to berate its chief.

    Veteran BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi, who has served as Kumar’s deputy for greater than a decade, and stays the one chief within the birthday celebration whom the CM is claimed to have depended on absolutely, expresses vexation over the present scenario.

    “This confrontation should come to an finish on all sides. I would not have an iota of doubt that this coalition will remaining its complete five-year time period. However the spat sends out improper alerts,” he mentioned.

    Particularly, the opposition RJD has of past due been somewhat softer than previous against Kumar, in what’s observed as an evident try to fish within the NDA’s stricken waters.

  • JD-U downplays celebration chief’s pitch for ‘President Nitish’, says he isn’t within the race

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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.

  • BJP downplays JD-U neta’s pitch for ‘President Nitish’

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    PATNA:  Political climate in Bihar has heated up once more after a senior JD-U minister made a choice for naming Leader Minister Nitish Kumar because the Presidential candidate. Alliance spouse BJP, then again, downplayed it.

    JD-U minister Shravan Kumar kick-started the talk by means of announcing Nitish must be made the Presidential candidate as “he has the entire skills to think the highest constitutional put up”. “Nitish isn’t within the race for the highest put up however everyone desires to look him because the President. He’ll be a greater Presidential candidate and also will cling the accountability neatly,” he added.

    “Nitish ji possesses all qualities to develop into Rashtrapati,” he asserted. The minister additionally claimed that Nitish has a “huge imaginative and prescient on nationwide and world problems”. “Each and every Bihari shall be satisfied to have Nitish Kumar as the following President,” he added.

    The saffron camp, in the meantime, downplayed the JD-U chief’s observation. “When the presidential candidate can be declared officially, I might react,” firebrand BJP chief Giriraj Singh informed newshounds in Muzaffarpur.

    In the similar vein, senior Bihar BJP minister Ramsurat Kumar mentioned the topic shall be settled when the title is introduced. “In democratic set-up, everyone has the precise to contest elections,” Kumar, state’s earnings minister, mentioned. Prior to now two events, Nitish had sprang surprises all the way through the Presidential elections.