Amid the speculations regarding Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar quitting Chief Ministerial post. Party’s Parliamentary Board Chairman and former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday reiterated that as long as there is an alliance with BJP in the state. Nitish Kumar is its leader.
Kushwaha said that the alliance of the state’s ruling party and (BJP) is under the leadership of Nitish Kumar in Bihar.
On being ask whether Nitish Kumar will continue as the Chief Minister of Bihar or there any pressure from the BJP on him to leave the Chief Ministerial post, he said that there is no such type of pressure from the BJP.
Former Union Minister also said.”There is no pressure but some BJP people made statements in the past regarding this and so I said this. Otherwise, everything is fine in BJP and JDU alliance in Bihar.”
“I also want to say that some BJP leaders make unnecessary statements. They should stop the rhetoric. I demand from the central leadership of BJP to rein those leaders who are making unnecessary statements on Bihar CM,” Kushwaha.
News agency ANI quoted a Senior BJP leader from Bihar that everything is fine between both the parties. “There is no dispute within JDU for the Chief Minister post in Bihar. Some people are deliberately trying to create conflict in the NDA alliance. Have you read or heard any statement of our party leader on the Chief Minister post in Bihar?” he said.
“If any kind of changes will made in Bihar, only party’s high command will speak on it,” senior Bihar BJP leader.
Meanwhile in December 2021, reports poured in stating that BJP and JDU ties have begun to weaken. The JD(U) and BJP, partners in the NDA government in Bihar, engaged in a two-front war of words.