"Nitish Kumar is coming for post": BJP's Chhedi Paswan amid speculations of Bihar CM joining NDA
Jan 27, 2024
Patna (Bihar) [India], January 27 : Amid the possibility of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar making yet another switch to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Chhedi Paswan said that the JD(U) chief is 'coming for the post'.
Speaking to ANI, Paswan said that the leaders and workers of the party will be satisfied with the decision to be taken by the party's high command.
"...I had said earlier also that Nitish Kumar can go anywhere for the post. He is coming for the post.... If my party leaders are satisfied, then we are also satisfied," Chhedi Paswan said.
Notably, the BJP held a BJP state executive committee meeting in Bihar's Patna amid the speculations of Nitish Kumar joining the National Democratic Alliance.
The BJP will hold a meeting with its MLAs and MPs in Patna to chalk out the strategy over the latest political situation in the state.
The meeting, scheduled for Sunday will take place at 9 am.
However, Bihar BJP chief Samrat Choudhary set it aside, stating that the party's high command has 'no clue' about it.
"Neither has Nitish Kumarji resigned nor has anybody withdrawn support. Only if something happens, then we will have any information. At present, the BJP wants to assess the situation of Bihar and then, we will make a decision accordingly," Chaudhary said while speaking to reporters in Bihar's Patna.
"We will get informed only if Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives information regarding the same," he added.
The ruling JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar is on the brink of collapse, as there is likelihood that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could cross over to the NDA again, the alliance he parted his ways in 2022 to form the 'mahagathbandhan'.
The BJP has the largest number of 17 MPs in Bihar, where the total number of Lok Sabha members is 40. The JD(U), headed by Kumar, has 16 while another NDA ally LJP, now split up between the uncle-nephew duo of Pashupati Kumar Paras and Chirag Paswan, has six.
In the Bihar Assembly of 243, the RJD has 79 MLAs; followed by the BJP's 78; the JD(U)'s 45' the Congress's 19, the CPI (M-L)'s 12, two each of the CPI(M) and CPI, the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)'s four seats, and the AIMIM's one, plus one Independent legislator.
