Nitish Kumar to be CM face in upcoming Bihar Assembly Polls
Lalu Yadav said he was ready to drink ‘poison’ to crush the ‘cobra’ of communalism
New Delhi: After RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav said he was ready to drink ‘poison’ to crush the ‘cobra’ of communalism, Samajwadi chief Mulayam Singh Yadav declared JD(U) leader and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar as the chief ministerial face of a larger alliance of non-BJP parties for the Bihar elections due in a few months’ time.
“I am very happy about the unity of Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar. Mr Kumar will be the chief ministerial candidate. Laluji has proposed Nitish Kumar’s name for the chief ministership. Laluji said he will campaign. There are no differences and we will not allow any differences to crop up,” the SP chief said on Monday.
The RJD chief, however, did not hide his reservations about the proposed alliance, for which seat adjustments are yet to be decided on. “I want to assure secular forces and the people of India that in this battle of Bihar, I am ready to gulp everything. Hum har tarah ka ghoont peene ko taiyar hain. Hum har tarah ka zehar peene ko taiyar hain (I am ready to drink all types of poison),” Mr Lalu Yadav said, in an apparent hint that many issues are yet to be resolved on seat adjustments between the JD(U) and the RJD.
After Mr Kumar steered the Congress close to his party for the Bihar polls, the RJD supremo was apparently left with no option but to throw his weight behind the larger unity of non-BJP parties. The SP chief brokered the peace between the JD(U) and the RJD.