बिहार में अगला विधानसभा चुनाव नीतीश के नेतृत्व में लड़ा जाएगा : गिरिराज

भाजपा प्रमुख अमित शाह ने कुछ दिन पहले बयान दिया था कि मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव में राजग का नेतृत्व करेंगे. केंद्रीय मंत्री गिरिराज सिंह ने शाह के बयान का समर्थन किया है. जानें क्या कुछ कहा गिरिराज सिंह ने

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Published : Oct 20, 2019, 8:23 AM IST

पटना : केंद्रीय मंत्री गिरिराज सिंह ने कहा कि नीतीश कुमार के नेतृत्व में ही बिहार का अगला विधानसभा चुनाव लड़ा जाएगा.

बता दें, भाजपा प्रमुख अमित शाह ने स्पष्ट बयान दिया था कि मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार अगले बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव में राजग का नेतृत्व करेंगे.

अपने संसदीय क्षेत्र बेगूसराय में पत्रकारों से बातचीत के दौरान गिरिराज ने कहा कि नीतीश कुमार के नेतृत्व में ही विधानसभा चुनाव लड़ा जाएगा.

इसे भी पढ़ें- बिहार में जेटली की प्रतिमा की जाएगी स्थापित : नीतीश

उन्होंने कहा कि राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष ने यह निर्णय लिया है, हम लोग उस निर्णय के साथ हैं. स्वाभाविक है कि बिहार में राजग चुनाव लड़ेगा जिसके मुखिया नीतीश कुमार हैं.

गिरिराज ने कहा कि लोकसभा चुनाव में हम बराबरी की सीटों पर चुनाव लड़े थे. उम्मीद है कि विधानसभा चुनाव भी इसी आधार पर लड़ा जाएगा.

इसे भी पढ़ें- बिहार में जेटली की प्रतिमा की जाएगी स्थापित : नीतीश

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After Shah's snub, Giriraj hopes better seat-sharing deal for
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Begusarai (Bihar), Oct 19 (PTI) Chastened by party
chief Amit Shah's assertion that Nitish Kumar will lead the
NDA charge in the next assembly polls in Bihar, Union minister
Giriraj Singh on Saturday hoped that BJP would clinch a
seat-sharing deal on the same pattern as in the Lok Sabha in
which it had contested as many seats as JD(U) headed by the
chief minister.
In an apparent rebuff to the chief minister's
detractors in BJP, Shah in a recent interview made it clear
that the NDA will approach the hustings in 2020 under the
leadership of Kumar and termed the JD(U)-BJP alliance as
unshakeable.
"I abide by whatever our party president says. He has
made it clear that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will head the
NDA in the assembly polls next year. So that is the party line
and I shall abide by it," said Singh who is known to be a
strident critic of Kumar.
The firebrand BJP leader represents Begusarai in Bihar
in the Lok Sabha.
To a pointed query about seat-sharing arrangements, he
said, "We fought equal number of seats in the Lok Sabha polls.
I hope the same pattern is maintained in the Assembly
elections as well."
In the parliamentary elections, the BJP and the JD(U)
settled for 17 seats each while the third NDA constituent, Ram
Vilas Paswan's LJP was given six.
The coalition made a clean sweep with BJP and LJP
winning all the seats while JD(U) bagged all but one. In the
state assembly, the JD(U) has close to 70 members as against
the BJP's tally of just over 50.
In the assembly polls of 2005 and 2010, when the NDA
comprised only JD(U) and BJP, the former contested 142 out of
the 243 assembly seats in the state while the latter fielded
its candidates in the remaining 101.
There have been speculations that in the backdrop of
its rising nationwide clout and the fact that it sacrificed
five of its sitting Lok Sabha seats in the general elections
to accommodate JD(U) which returned to the NDA two years ago
after having walked out in 2013 the BJP may insist on a more
equitable distribution of seats between the two parties.
Daggers were drawn between the allies recently when a
BJP MLC and former Union minister Sanjay Paswan perceived to
be close to Giriraj Singh openly pitched for his party
staking claim over the chief minister's post after the next
assembly polls.
The chasm grew deeper earlier this month when Singh
launched repeated attacks on the Nitish Kumar government over
water-logging in Patna, evoking strong reprisal from the JD(U)
even as opposition parties like the RJD and the Congress
sought to fish in troubled waters by egging on the chief
minister to dump the BJP and join the anti-NDA front. PTI CORR
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