New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) on Sunday reiterated that it’s going to not be part of the Union council of ministers, information company PTI reported. However, the get together rebuffed speculations of a rift with ally BJP asserting “all is well”. JD(U) nationwide chief Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, addressing a press convention in Patna, dismissed queries about Kumar’s absence on the NITI Aayog assembly, saying “you should ask the chief minister”.
While there isn’t any official phrase on the rationale behind Kumar’s absence, sources near him cited post-COVID debility because the trigger.
Lalan, seen as a frontrunner for a ministerial berth from the JD(U) after RCP Singh’s resignation, mentioned that the get together wasn’t keen to have any consultant within the Union Council of ministers.
“We had decided in 2019, after the Lok Sabha polls, not to join the government at the Centre. We stick to that stand,” PTI quoted him as saying.
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“The decision not to join the Union government was taken by our leader Nitish Kumar who was then also the party’s national president,” Lalan mentioned.
When identified that RCP turned a minister in 2021, Lalan mentioned, “You should ask him (RCP) who was the national president at that time. He did not take anybody in the loop while arriving at the decision”.
The JD(U) chief additional sought to make gentle of the exit of RCP Singh from the get together, who resigned from the Union cupboard not too long ago after being denied one other Rajya Sabha time period.
“He may have left the party only yesterday. But for long his body was in the party and soul elsewhere,” Lalan mentioned.
The JD(U) nationwide chief, nonetheless, suggested RCP, his predecessor, to “apply himself to wherever his coronary heart thoughts and soul lie, with out partaking in diatribe in opposition to Nitish Kumar”.
