The confrontation continued to rage as days after Prashant Kishor claimed that Nitish Kumar is in contact with the BJP and that he might go for a tie-up with the celebration once more if state of affairs calls for so, the Bihar Chief Minister Friday stated that each one that the ballot strategist needs is publicity.
“Kindly don’t ask me about him. He retains speaking. He speaks for his personal publicity and may say no matter he needs, we don’t care. There was a time once I revered him…I don’t know what’s on his thoughts now,” Nitish Kumar was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
#WATCH | “…He speaks for his personal publicity & can converse no matter he needs, we don’t care. He’s younger. There was a time once I revered him…these whom I revered had disrespected me: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Prashant Kishor’s comment that he’s in contact with BJP pic.twitter.com/ZPdmQUDSkr
— ANI (@ANI) October 21, 2022
“He’s youthful. These whom I revered have misbehaved with me, you all know that!” Nitish added.
Kishor, who’s on a padyatra in Bihar in what’s broadly seen as a precursor to his contemporary entry into lively politics, advised information company PTI that Kumar has saved a line of communication open with the BJP by JD(U) MP and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh.
“People who find themselves pondering that Nitish Kumar is actively constructing a nationwide alliance in opposition to the BJP shall be stunned to know that he has saved a line open with the BJP. He’s in contact with the BJP by his celebration MP and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh ji,” he stated. He steered that Harivansh has not been requested to resign his Rajya Sabha submit for that reason though the JD(U) has severed ties with the BJP.
“Individuals should hold this in thoughts that every time such circumstances come up, he can return to the BJP and work with it,” he added.
Kishor had joined the JD(U) in 2018 and was even elevated to its nationwide vice chairman submit, however was expelled from the celebration in early 2020 after he fell out with Nitish.