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Nitish Kumar Will Be Chief Ministerial Candidate In Bihar Polls: JP Nadda

JP Nadda

The statement comes by the BJP chief, at a virtual meet of the Bihar BJP, amid a heated war of words between Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Chirag Paswan-headed LJP.

On Sunday, BJP President J P Nadda said that all three NDA constituents in Bihar, the JD(U), LJP, and his party, will fight the coming state assembly elections together with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the face of the alliance. He also expressed confidence that the alliance will emerge victoriously.

The statement comes by the BJP chief, at a virtual meet of the Bihar BJP, amid a heated war of words between Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Chirag Paswan-headed LJP.

The ruling party in the centre has been maintaining that the ruling National Democratic Alliance is intact in the state and has stuck to Nitish Kumar’s projection as its chief ministerial face. The opposition in Bihar as well as elsewhere has become a “spent force” and asserted that the BJP is the only party which is being looked at by people with hope, the BJP chief stressed.

He also added that the opposition has neither ideology nor vision nor any spirit to serve people, and it can’t rise above petty politics.

JP Nadda also praised the Bihar government”s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and floods in the state.

He said the special package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been implemented in “letter and spirit, urging state BJP to go to people with its details.

The BJP chief also shared details of the Modi government’s work to boost health care measures to battle the pandemic and to provide relief to people, especially the poor, with several packages.

The election commission is speculated to announce the dates for the Bihar polls in September. The elections in the state are due in October-November.

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