Tuskers, camels, cadre line up as Nitish Kumar's son Nishant joins JDU

PATNA: Outgoing Bihar CM and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar’s 50-year-old lad Nishant Kumar, who had agelong stayed distant from nationalist life, entered progressive authorities and joined the enactment Sunday aft his begetter filed his Rajya Sabha information 3 days ago.Crowds of enactment workers thronged the JD(U) office successful Patna, welcoming Nishant with garlands and a celebratory cavalcade of elephants, horses and camels.

Nishant promises to fortify organisation

Wearing a achromatic kurta-pyjama and flip-flops, helium was inducted by enactment nationalist moving president Sanjay Kumar Jha, who handed him the rank gaffe astatine a programme attended by elder functionaries. The alumnus of BIT Mesra had kept region from authorities until his 75-year-old begetter decided to determination to Rajya Sabha aft serving 10 presumption arsenic CM implicit astir 2 decades.

Addressing workers successful his archetypal code arsenic a enactment member, Nishant Kumar promised to fortify the organisation and warrant the spot placed successful him. “I volition effort my champion to unrecorded up to expectations of workers, enactment and public,” helium said.Nishant called his father’s determination a idiosyncratic prime respected by household and said helium would proceed moving nether his guidance. He credited his begetter for Bihar’s development. “People volition not hide his contribution,” helium said to large applause.

Soft-spoken and reserved, Nishant seldom interacted with media. After joining the party, helium offered prayers astatine Mahavir Mandir successful Patna, visited a tomb adjacent Patna precocious tribunal and distributed sweets to reporters. “Ishwar, Allah and Waheguru, each are same,” helium said.Opposition reacted sharply. RJD main Lalu Prasad’s girl Rohini Acharya mocked Nitish’s agelong disapproval of dynastic politics. “Chacha ji... wherever has your hollow statement connected dynasty authorities disappeared? There has ever been a large spread betwixt your words and actions,” she wrote connected X, adding Nitish represented “political and ideological contradictions”.Congress Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh welcomed Nishant’s introduction but said Nitish himself should reply questions connected dynasty politics.Nishant’s debut places him successful a agelong enactment of children of Bihar CMs who entered politics. Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi’s household has 1 of the largest governmental footprints, with respective of their 9 children progressive successful politics. Lalu’s youngest lad Tejashwi Prasad Yadav served 2 presumption arsenic lawman CM.