"Make Nitish Kumar Vice President, His Party Had Offered": BJP's Charge
NDTV
Sushil Kumar Modi said some Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), leaders approached him with a plan that he could become Bihar Chief Minister if Nitish Kumar goes to Delhi as Vice President
Some people in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party wanted him to become Vice President, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters today. Mr Modi, who was Mr 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 Mr Kumar goes to Delhi as Vice President.
The Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), hasn't yet responded to these allegations by Mr Modi.
"Some JD(U) people had come to say that make 'Nitish Kumar the Vice President and you should rule in Bihar'," Mr Modi told reporters just before Mr 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," Mr Kumar said today.
