Bihar elections: JD(U) stands firm on Nitish, BJP stays vague as uneasy calm engulfs NDA over CM face | India News
[ad_1] Bihar CM Nitish Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: The conspicuous absence of affirmation from the BJP top brass on ally Nitish Kumar's chief ministership ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly polls has led to out-of-sync statements from both the BJP and the JD(U).While Nitish's party has dug its heels on the CM post, Haryana counterpart Nayab Singh Saini's remark that NDA would win the Bihar poll under BJP's Samrat Choudhary raised eyebrows on Monday.As Saini's statement triggered flutter in the poll-bound Bihar, the JD(U) leaders rolled up their sleeves on Tuesday to assert Nitish as CM for the next five years.Blunting the opposition's charge of the BJP outsmarting the Nitish, national spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan Prasad dismissed the Haryana CM's comment and asserted that the ruling alliance faces no crisis over its chief ministerial face in Bihar.Prasad said, "The Bihar […]