UNION Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah has touched a raw nerve in ally JD(U) by suggesting in a recent interview to India Today TV that the choice of who would be chief minister, should the NDA win in Bihar, remains open.

Shah said that while the NDA was contesting under the leadership of JD(U) supremo and incumbent CM Nitish Kumar , a call on the new CM would be taken after the polls.

On Saturday, the third biggest ally in the NDA, the Chirag Paswan -led LJP (Ram Vilas) said Shah’s stand was only natural. A Union minister, Paswan said it is “standard procedure that all the legislators of an alliance sit together to decide the CM”.

The JD(U) in turn asserted that Nitish, despite his health concerns, remains “the strongest NDA face” in Bihar.

Speaking to The Indian Exp

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