JDU politician stirs pot again, says many want Nitish’s son in politics

PATNA: JDU’s moving president Sanjay Kumar Jha Friday stirred the proverbial governmental cookware with his remark that “everybody wants Nishant Kumar to articulation politics”, though helium rapidly added a caveat that it each depended connected the 49-year-old technologist lad of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who is besides an engineer.“Party workers, well-wishers and supporters privation Nishant to travel and enactment for the party,” Jha told reporters astatine Patna airport, successful Nishant’s presence. “Ab inhi ko faisla lena hai ki kab tay karte hain aur enactment maine kam karte hain (It’s Nishant who has to determine erstwhile to commencement moving for the party),” helium said.Nishant declined to comment.JDU supremo Nitish Kumar, 1 of the longest serving CMs successful the country, has maintained a studied soundlessness connected the contented of his governmental successor adjacent arsenic his property and wellness person led to immoderate concerns.

Nitish has besides often criticised dynastic politics, which helium has accused his arch-rival, RJD main Lalu Prasad, of practising.In the caller Bihar assembly elections, JDU delivered a striking performance, astir doubling its 2020 tally of 43 seats successful the 243-member assembly to 85 successful 2025.Of late, Nishant has been visibly much active, praising his father’s governance record. During the campaign, posters urging Nishant to participate authorities were spotted crossed Patna and Nalanda, though helium ne'er publically reacted.