Sitab Diara: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday claimed that ballot strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor had requested him to merge his JD(U) with the Congress.
Chatting with reporters in Sitab Diara, the birthplace of socialist icon Jayaprakash Narayan, Kumar claimed that Kishor was working for the BJP.
“He got here to satisfy me lately of his personal accord. I didn’t invite him. He speaks a lot however hides the truth that as soon as he had requested me to merge my get together with the Congress,” stated Kumar.
The chief minister was responding to Kishor’s declare that he spurned a current request by by Kumar to guide the JD(U).
“Let him communicate no matter he desires. No matter he says, doesn’t make any sense. 4-five years in the past, he had instructed me to merge with the Congress. Now, he’s working for the BJP,” stated Kumar.
Kishor had on Tuesday claimed that Kumar had referred to as him to his residence about 10-15 days again and requested him to guide JD(U).
“I stated it’s not potential. I can not return on the dedication I’ve made in return for any publish,” stated Kishor.
Kishor, the founding father of political consultancy I-PAC, was inducted into the JD(U) in 2018 by Kumar and was elevated to the nationwide vice-president’s publish inside a couple of weeks.
Nevertheless, a squabble with Kumar over the Citizenship (Modification) Act and the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC) led to his expulsion from the get together in a few years.
In Could, he introduced the ‘Jan Suraaj’ platform, and is at current on a 3,500-km-long march that might cowl each nook and nook of the state.
In the meantime, the chief minister paid floral tributes to Jayaprakash Narayan on his demise anniversary, and reviewed the event works undertaken by his authorities in and round Sitab Diara.
He additionally visited a major well being centre (PHC) named after Narayan’s spouse Prabhavati Devi. “This well being centre can have all medical amenities and villagers is not going to need to go to the district city for higher remedy,” he stated. -PTI
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