NITISH WILL BE OUR CM FACE IN BIHAR: SHAH

VAISHALI GARH: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Union home minister Amit Shah said that Nitish Kumar would be the chief ministerial candidate in Bihar and the alliance between his party and the Janata Dal (United) was “unbreakable”, putting to rest speculation of a rift between the allies over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, and a proposed all-india National Register of Citizens (NRC). Shah was addressing a rally at the Gharauna Pokhar ground in Vaishali district to drum up support for CAA.

With Bihar scheduled to go to the polls in October, Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre, and Nitish Kumar will lead the alliance in the state. “I want to end all rumours by declaring openly here that the next assembly elections in Bihar will be fought under the leadership of Nitish Kumar,” he said.

“Lalu Prasad (Rashtriya Janata Dal chief), who is in jail in corruption cases, may go on dreaming that our coalition will come apart. But he should know that the NDA has led Bihar out of his lantern age (an allusion to the RJD’S poll symbol) to the LED era...the country and the state shall progress under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar, respectively,” PTI quoted Shah as saying. He also attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal chief minister chief Mamata Banerjee, blaming them for the violence that took place in different parts of India in protests against CAA.