Dec 22, 2024 04:37 PM IST
The NDA will contest the meeting polls in Bihar subsequent 12 months beneath the management of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Deputy Chief Minister and BJP chief Samrat Choudhary mentioned on Sunday.
“There is no such thing as a confusion,” he mentioned throughout a press convention on the BJP headquarters when requested to touch upon hypothesis that the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) may rethink projecting Kumar as its chief within the polls.
He was responding to Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s latest interview with a information channel during which he was requested if the NDA may go to the polls in Bihar with out declaring a chief ministerial candidate prefer it just lately did with nice success in Maharashtra.
Shah, a former BJP president who continues to be considered the celebration’s principal strategist, had replied after a pause, “We are going to sit collectively and determine. We are going to let you recognize after we’ve got decided.”
The cryptic response had led to livid hypothesis that the BJP may insist on not projecting Kumar within the 2025 polls.
Dismissing the hypothesis, Choudhary mentioned, “The NDA is working beneath the management of Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar and we are going to proceed to contest elections beneath the management of each leaders.”
“In 2020, we contested after asserting (Kumar because the NDA’s chief ministerial face) and, up to now, we’ve got thought of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar solely (because the NDA chief in Bihar). In future additionally, we are going to contest elections beneath the management of Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi,” the Bihar deputy chief minister added.
Elections to the 243-member Bihar Meeting are due in late 2025.
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