Nitish Kumar wanted to be the VP of India

Patna, Aug 10: Some people in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party wanted him to become Vice President, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters today. Modi, who was Kumar's deputy before he became a Rajya Sabha MP, said the same Janata Dal (United) leaders approached him with a plan that he could become Bihar Chief Minister if Kumar goes to Delhi as Vice President.

 

 

 

The Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), hasn't yet responded to these allegations by Modi.

 

 

 

"Some JD(U) people had come to say that make 'Nitish Kumar the Vice President and you should rule in Bihar'," Modi told reporters just before Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for a record eighth time. The Chief Minister has denied he had any national ambition and acted only to save his party from the BJP's strategy to cut him to size. "Whether I will stay or not, let people say what they have to say. I am not an aspirant for the Prime Minister's post. The question is will the person who came in 2014 win in 2024? In the last month and a half, I stopped talking to the media," Kumar said today. Modi said Kumar has insulted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of Bihar who had voted for the NDA (National Democratic Alliance). "We will like to see how the new Bihar government functions with Tejashwi (Yadav) as de facto Chief Minister. The government will fall before the next polls," Modi said. Kumar broke ties with the BJP for a range of reasons, chief among them his worries that the BJP may try to do a Maharashtra in Bihar.

 

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"We did not try to split Shiv Sena in Maharashtra," Modi said, denying allegations by the JD(U) that the BJP had been working to hollow out the JD(U) from inside. "Nitish will ditch RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) and try to split it taking advantage of Lalu Yadav's illness," the BJP MP said.