Patna: In the Bihar Assembly elections, however, the NDA won the contest and defeated the Grand Alliance. But confusion has arisen for the post of Chief Minister. Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced before the results, whatever the outcome, but Nitish Kumar, the candidate for CM will remain. On the other hand, Nitish Kumar is feeling that his party has lost in a way and is hesitant to assume the post of CM.
However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also become aware of this confusion of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, hence he clarified the situation from BJP headquarters in Delhi. He said that Bihar will proceed further under the leadership of Nitish Kumar. If sources are to be believed, Nitish Kumar is so hurt by the election move of LJP Chief Chirag Paswan that he is hesitant to take oath as Chief Minister again.
The English newspaper The Indian Express quoted a BJP leader as saying that Nitish Kumar was shocked by the disappointing performance of his party JDU and did not want to take over the CM’s chair again. The BJP leader told the newspaper on condition of keeping his name a secret, “He (Nitish) is very upset that Chirag has dashed the JDU’s hopes of winning at least 25 to 30 candidates.” We told him that he should remain the CM even though the BJP has emerged as a big partner of the alliance. “
In the Bihar assembly of 243 seats, the NDA got 125 seats while the Mahagathbandhan got 110 seats. BJP topped the NDA constituent parties with 74 seats while JDU got only 43 seats. At the same time, RJD has got 75 seats and has emerged as the largest party in Bihar while its ally Congress party has got 19 seats and Left parties have 16 seats. Let us tell you that this is the worst performance of JDU since the 2005 assembly elections.
Bihar BJP in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, State BJP President Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai met Nitish Kumar on Tuesday evening. It has been termed as a courtesy call but many JDU leaders see it as a dilemma for the BJP. He believes that the BJP leaders had come to boost the morale of Desperate Nitish and there is an attempt to remove this confusion.
Also read in Hindi: Bihar Election Result: दुखी नीतीश सीएम बनने से कर रहे संकोच, बीजेपी नेताओं ने की मुलाकातः सूत्र