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Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar confirmed his Rajya Sabha nomination, sparking governmental uproar. Opposition leaders criticized the move, calling it a "leadership coup" and "political abduction" orchestrated by the BJP, betraying the people's mandate.
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar connected Thursday confirmed that helium volition record his information for the Rajya Sabha successful the existent rhythm of elections.The announcement has sent shockwaves done the governmental scenery of Bihar, coming conscionable months aft his resounding 5th electoral triumph successful 2025 and his tenth oath arsenic Chief Minister. Reacting to the move, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Manoj Kumar Jha drew an antithetic analogy. He said the concern resembles a “desi mentation of the Maduro model” oregon a lawsuit of “kidnapping by consent.” Jha referred to the December 2025 US strikes successful Venezuela that captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. “The mode this quality emerged abruptly crossed aggregate media platforms indicates that it is not specified speculation oregon rumour.
This reflects the extremity of a governmental chapter. Even successful a ‘desi’ form, specified a exemplary tin beryllium seen arsenic captivity by consent wherever the consent is not genuinely fixed by the idiosyncratic but by those astir him,” helium said.Tejashwi Yadav, person of absorption successful the Bihar Assembly, launched a scathing onslaught connected the BJP aft Kumar’s confirmation. He accused the enactment of hijacking Nitish Kumar and said the determination is against the sentiments of the people.
“I ever said ‘Nitish ji ko ghoda toh chadaya hai dulha banake, lekin phera kisi aur ke sath dila raha hai.’ The BJP has wholly hijacked Nitish Kumar. Today, that connection has travel true.
People’s aspirations are against this alteration of power,” Yadav said. RJD person Mrityunjay Tiwari described the determination arsenic a “huge governmental abduction.” He said it exposes the cognition of the BJP towards its allies and claimed that immoderate JD(U) leaders are moving successful collusion with the BJP portion others enactment Nitish Kumar.
“A large upheaval successful Bihar authorities has abruptly go visible. No 1 could person anticipated that the BJP would region Chief Minister Nitish Kumar truthful rapidly aft the elections, but the informing had been there.
This is simply a immense governmental abduction,” Tiwari told quality bureau ANI. Congress MP Jairam Ramesh called it a “leadership coup” and said it betrayed the mandate of the people. “What the Indian National Congress had been saying during the Bihar predetermination run has present travel to pass.
A enactment coup and authorities alteration orchestrated by G2 has taken place. In galore ways, it is simply a immense betrayal of the people’s mandate,” helium said successful a station connected X. JD(U) workers and supporters expressed disbelief extracurricular the Chief Minister’s residence successful Patna. One idiosyncratic adjacent suggested that it was imaginable Nitish Kumar’s relationship had been hijacked.Union curate and JD(U) MP Rajiv Ranjan Lalan Singh praised Nitish Kumar’s achievements.
He said nary 1 tin ideate what Kumar has done for Bihar and stressed that it is wholly up to him to determine wherever helium wants to go. “Nitish Kumar volition marque this decision. He has built Bihar. He volition spell wherever helium wants to go,” Singh said.Former national curate and BJP state Udit Raj expressed astonishment astatine Kumar’s determination and criticized it for weakening the JD(U). He pointed to precocious unemployment, the privatization of authorities functions, and the debased standards of authorities schools successful Bihar.
“If helium is going to beryllium an MP, it would beryllium much honourable for him to instrumentality up nary roles,” helium said. In his connection connected X, CM Nitish Kumar sought to guarantee the radical of Bihar that his committedness to the authorities remains unchanged. “I question to go a subordinate of the Rajya Sabha successful the elections being held this time. My narration with you and my resoluteness to enactment unneurotic to physique a developed Bihar volition stay steadfast. The caller authorities that volition beryllium formed volition person my afloat practice and guidance,” helium wrote.(With bureau inputs)
