Amid the talks about Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s deservingness for the post of India’s President, a Janata Dal (United) MP said if the NDA chooses him, he would take the country on the path of development.
Rumors about Kumar’s name for the Presidential post, which had subsided a few months ago after he said that he intended to remain in the state and serve its people, have resurfaced after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced Presidential polls earlier this week.
Asked about it, JD(U) MP Alok Suman said, “If the NDA chooses CM Nitish Kumar for the Presidential post, we would like it.”
Emphasizing Kumar’s deservingness for the post, Suman said, “He is far-sighted and has a lot of experience. He has been running state for 20 years. He would take the country on the path of development. I think it will be good to bring him to this post.”
Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has targeted Kumar over the talks of his name for the post of President.
“We had called Nitish Kumar Prime Minister material when we ran the government in the state in alliance with his party. But he never cared to abide by coalition dharma. He chose to support the then Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind’s candidature in the last Presidential elections even though he was not a part of the NDA,” said RJD spokesman Mrityunjay Tiwari.
The RJD spokesperson said that Kumar had then defended his action by speciously linking it to the issue of Bihari pride.
He further said that if Kumar indeed made it to the Raisina Hills, “we will be proud despite what he has done to us in the past since he is a Bihari. But we doubt whether the BJP, which seems to have put him on a political slow poison, will let it happen”.
