Patna: Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar returned early from the opposition assembly in Bengaluru as he was “upset” over not having been made convener of the new coalition – Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). Kumar’s JD(U) hit again, dubbing the previous Deputy CM as ‘somebody who makes ridiculous statements and isn’t taken critically even inside his occasion’.
In an announcement issued right here, the BJP chief claimed that Kumar intentionally ‘skipped the press convention held after the assembly’ since he felt slighted over not having been made ‘sanyojak’ (convener) of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance.
He additionally likened Kumar’s early return from Bengaluru to the motion of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the final month’s opposition assembly right here.
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The AAP delegation had skipped the press convention after the meet in Patna, and shortly afterwards, come out with an announcement lashing out on the Congress for not assuring assist on the ordinance challenge.
“Some of our friends are not present because their return journeys were scheduled,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned on the press convention in Bengaluru.
Besides Kumar, these not current on the press convention included RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav, the present Deputy CM of Bihar, each of whom travelled with the chief minister.
The trio returned by the identical flight and drove to their respective locations, inside spitting distance of one another, a lot to the frustration of journalists who waited eagerly on the airport for some information bites.
Sushil Modi additionally alleged that the brand new acronym INDIA was coined to ‘cover unhealthy intentions (khoti niyat)’ of the ‘anti-Hindu’ opposition events which can get a befitting reply from ‘sanskritinishth (culturally rooted) Bharat’.
Meanwhile, senior JD(U) chief and state minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary dismissed the allegation of Sushil Modi whom he accused of creating ‘ridiculous statements’.
“Sushil Modi is not taken seriously in his own party as is evident from his being sidelined”, Chaudhary informed PTI, obliquely referring to the BJP chief being unceremoniously dropped as Deputy CM after the 2020 meeting polls.
“He had in the past made outlandish predictions like a split in the JD(U) and merger of our party with RJD. All these predictions have come a cropper. But he is unrelenting in his quest to regain some political relevance. We wish him good luck,” Chaudhary alleged.
Setting the tone for his or her 2024 Lok Sabha marketing campaign, 26 opposition events on Tuesday shaped the coalition – Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) – to unitedly tackle the ruling NDA with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi asserting that the struggle will probably be “between INDIA and Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
Announcing the identify of the opposition bloc on the press convention in Bengaluru after an almost four-hour-long assembly of the 26 events, the Congress president mentioned, “We’ll fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unitedly and we will come out with great success.”
He mentioned a committee of 11 members will probably be arrange for coordination, and a convenor will probably be chosen on the subsequent assembly in Mumbai.
