Sitab Diara: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday claimed that election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor had asked him to merge his JD(U) with the Congress.
Speaking to reporters at Sitab Diyara, the birthplace of socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan, Kumar claimed that Kishor was working for the BJP.
“He had come to meet me recently of his own free will. I didn’t invite him. He talks a lot but hides the fact that once he asked me to merge his party with Congress,” Kumar said.
The chief minister was responding to Kishor’s claim that he had turned down Kumar’s recent request to lead the JD(U).
“Let him speak whatever he has to say. Whatever he says doesn’t make any sense. Four-five years ago they asked me to merge with Congress. Now, he is working for the BJP,” Kumar said.
Kishor had on Tuesday claimed that Kumar had called him to his residence about 10-15 days ago and asked him to lead the JD(U).
“I said it was not possible. I cannot go back on the commitment I made in exchange for any position,” Kishor said.
Kishor, the founder of political consultancy I-PAC, was inducted into the JD(U) in 2018 by Kumar and was promoted to the rank of national vice president within weeks.
However, he was expelled from the party over the years due to his altercation with Kumar over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
In May, he announced the ‘Jan Suraj’ platform, and is currently on a 3,500-km-long march, which will cover every nook and corner of the state.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister paid floral tributes to Jayaprakash Narayan on his death anniversary and reviewed the development work done by his government in and around Sitab Diyara.
He also visited a Primary Health Center (PHC) named after Narayan’s wife Prabhavati Devi. He said that this health center would have all the medical facilities and the villagers would not have to go to the district town for better treatment. -PTI
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