Nitish Kumar Meets PM Modi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met the Prime Minister here on Wednesday (February 7). Narendra Modi Met with. This is the first meeting of the two leaders after Janata Dal United (JDU) chief Nitish Kumar left the opposition India Alliance last month to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and form the government in Bihar with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Was.
During this, Nitish Kumar reiterated that he will not leave NDA now. After the meeting with PM Modi, he met Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda. It is believed that he discussed many governance and political issues related to Bihar.
‘Will now stay in NDA’
Speaking to the media, the JDU chief recalled his association with the BJP since 1995 before breaking ties with it in 2013 and said that he left the NDA twice but would never do so again. We will stay here (in NDA).
Floor test on 12th February
This meeting took place at a time when the Nitish Kumar led government has to face the trust vote in the Assembly on February 12. Recently, Nitish Kumar took oath along with eight ministers, including three each from BJP and JDU. At present the Council of Ministers is yet to be expanded.
Apart from this, both the parties will have to deal with many thorny political issues ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, including the distribution of parliamentary seats to be contested between them and their smaller allies. However, when asked about the issue of seat-sharing, the Chief Minister did not give it much importance and said that BJP leaders are aware of it. Six Rajya Sabha seats are falling vacant in Bihar, elections for which are to be held on 27th February.
Elections were contested on 17 seats in 2019
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP and JDU contested 17 seats each in Bihar, while the then Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) contested six seats. LJP is now divided into two groups. Now former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha are also included in the NDA.
Sources said that there is also a view that Nitish Kumar wants the Bihar Assembly to be dissolved so that its elections can be held in April-May. Lok Sabha Elections However, BJP does not seem to be that enthusiastic about the idea. BJP’s seat number in the assembly is more than JDU.