Nitish Kumar’s Rajya Sabha transfer catches JD(U) staff off guard; supporters miffed| India Information
As information of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar shifting to the Rajya Sabha broke on Thursday, a big group of Janata Dal (United) leaders and staff gathered on the celebration workplace and CM’s residence in Patna, looking for readability on the event that indicators a turning level within the state’s politics and leaves questions unanswered on a possible management vacuum each within the celebration and state administration.
On the 1, Anne Marg residence of the CM in Patna, offended staff stopped some celebration lawmakers from coming into the constructing. “Folks had voted to see Nitish as CM and never for him to go to Rajya Sabha,” JD(U) chief Rajeev Ranjan Patel, who was main a bunch of supporters, mentioned.
One other JD(U) chief, requesting anonymity, mentioned that in 2025, they’d sought votes in identify of Kumar. “What is going to we inform them (staff) now?” the chief requested, looking for clarification from JD(U) leaders contained in the celebration workplace.
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JD(U) MLC Sanjay Singh echoed the sentiment, saying if Nitish wished to go to Rajya Sabha he would have briefed the celebration staff himself. “There may be whole confusion within the celebration and staff are very offended,” Singh mentioned.
The longest-serving Bihar chief minister, Nitish dominated state’s politics for majority of the final twenty years. He filed his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, the final day to take action for the March 16 biennial elections.
Some senior leaders within the JD(U) noticed the event in additional optimistic method, saying Nitish would possibly shift his major political position to New Delhi however is unlikely to disengage from Bihar politics.
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“Nitish Kumar will stay in Delhi however he won’t abandon Bihar,” a senior JD(U) functionary mentioned, declining to be named. “So long as his political authority stays intact, he’ll maintain making an attempt to make sure that the celebration survives.”
With Nitish’s transfer to Parliament, the large query on who would take his legacy ahead looms massive. “We don’t know who WILL be our chief now. There is no such thing as a readability. I hope the problem has been mentioned and finalised within the celebration,” MLC Singh mentioned.
JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar mentioned the complete celebration was in favour of Nitish’s son Nishant’s entry in politics, however added it was a call that could possibly be taken solely by him or Nitish. “He’s educated, his simplicity is putting and his father has set excessive requirements in politics with an unblemished report. The whole lot makes him simply the precise alternative for the JD(U) to take the legacy ahead,” he added.
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A senior celebration chief, requesting anonymity, mentioned: “Whereas working intently with the BJP, the JD(U) can even have to maintain its identification and existence as an equal companion intact, as Nitish Kumar all alongside maintained. The position of senior celebration management and invaluable steering of Nitish Kumar shall be essential for clean transition, nevertheless it won’t be simple within the modified scenario.”
DM Diwakar, political analyst and former director of AN Sinha Institute of Social Research, mentioned: “JD(U) is a longtime celebration and has obtained the power within the Meeting. Nitish Kumar can’t proceed ceaselessly and what has occurred was certain to occur at some stage.”