PATNA: A day after LJP (RV) supremo and Union minister Chirag Paswan met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and stated that there was no vacancy for CM post in Bihar, on Tuesday, his party leaders put up posters in Patna, seemingly projecting Chirag as the next chief minister.
Erected along the roadsides at various places of the state capital, the poster features a meeting of Chirag and Nitish. It states, “We have developed Bihar by facing storms, now our future is in your hands.” It adds, “Uncle (Nitish) has full faith in this nephew (Chirag), both the face and character of Bihar will change, we met and got blessings.”
The posters have cropped up at a time when the young leader has already expressed his keenness to do politics in Bihar by declaring that “Bihar is calling him.” Chirag contested the last Lok Sabha election as an NDA ally and won all five seats his party contested.
Although senior BJP leader and DyCM Samrat Choudhary has clarified that the NDA will contest Bihar polls under the leadership of Nitish Kumar, these things will keep happening until Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah or BJP president J P Nadda do not unambiguously endorse statements of their junior party colleagues on Nitish, commented a BJP leader.
On Monday, Chirag met with Nitish. He was also accompanied by his brother-in-law and MP from Jamui Arun Bharati.
LJP (RV) is demanding more than 40 seats in the assembly election and the poster is seen as a ploy to create pressure on BJP and also JD (U) to concede its demand. In the last assembly election, Hindustani Awam Morch (HAM) of former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi was given seven seats from JD (U)’s share of 122 seats while BJP gave 11 seats to Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) from its share of 121 seats.
‘Our future in your hands’
Erected along the roadsides at various places of the state capital, the poster features a meeting of Chirag and Nitish. It states, “We have developed Bihar by facing storms, now our future is in your hands.”
