Shah, Nitish meet amidst row over CM face
xNew Delhi :Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday met JD(U) leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in Patna. The meeting came at a time when there is a growing demand from within the JD(U) to declare Kumar as the NDA’s chief ministerial candidate.
Shah’s recent statements during a TV interview on the Bihar CM issue have fuelled speculations in the poll-bound state and left the JD(U) cadre disappointed. There were also reports that Kumar was unhappy over the seat-sharing deal in the NDA, though the issue was finally resolved after the BJP top brass intervened.
After Shah’s statement on the CM issue ended up creating a controversy, JD(U) working president Sanjay Kumar Jha uploaded on his social media a video clip of Shah’s interview where