Patna: A day after LJP (RV) supremo and union minister Chirag Paswan met chief minister Nitish Kumar and said there was no vacancy for CM post in Bihar, posters were put up by his party leader in the state capital on Tuesday, apparently projecting Chirag as the state`s next chief minister.
Erected on roadsides at various places of the state capital, the poster shows the meeting of Chirag and Nitish. It mentions, "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 poster of Chirag has 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 had contested the last assembly election not as an ally of NDA and had also fielded candidates against JD (U) nominees at various seats, resulting in Nitish`s party being relegated to the third position with 43 seats.
Chirag contested the last Lok Sabha election as an NDA ally and won all five seats his party contested.
Although senior BJP leader and deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary has already made it clear that NDA will contest Bihar polls under the leadership, 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 as 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.
