Nitish Kumar To Sack RJD Ministers, Replace Them With BJP Faces: Sources

Patna:

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will sack ministers belonging to alliance companion and Lalu Yadav’s occasion Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tomorrow, sources informed NDTV at the moment.

The BJP and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), have additionally finalised a seat-sharing settlement for the Lok Sabha election due in three months.

All BJP MLAs in Bihar have already given letters of help to Nitish Kumar, sources have mentioned.

These developments point out the JD(U) chief – who dumped the BJP to affix the Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance in August 2022 – has crossed the purpose of no return in operating the alliance authorities with the RJD and the Congress.

Nitish Kumar, 72, is in direct talks with Dwelling Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to work out the effective particulars of his newest coup, sources mentioned.

The Bihar Chief Minister will host a lunch tomorrow of JD(U) and BJP MLAs at his house, after which the MLAs of each the events will go to the Governor to provide their letters of help, sources mentioned.

Nitish Kumar is prone to exchange the sacked ministers from the RJD with BJP faces, sources mentioned. He could have a serious say in deciding on a brand new Deputy Chief Minister, they mentioned, alluding to the doable exit of Nitish Kumar’s present deputy and Lalu Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav.

Within the medium time period, after 2025, Nitish Kumar might get a high-profile position within the Centre, sources mentioned.

Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who’s a Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, is Nitish Kumar’s selection for his deputy once more, sources mentioned.

The Bihar disaster additionally comes at a fragile time for the newly shaped Opposition bloc INDIA, whose members the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) in Punjab and Haryana, and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal have declined to share seats with the Congress within the Lok Sabha election.

Nitish Kumar has jumped between the BJP, Congress, and RLD since 2013 a lot in order that he has acquired the moniker ‘Paltu Ram’. After parting methods with the BJP in 2022, he had taken on the initiative of uniting all Opposition forces to collectively tackle PM Modi on this 12 months’s normal election.

In keeping with leaders near the 72-year-old, the January 13 assembly of the INDIA alliance was the turning level. In that assembly, Nitish Kumar’s title was proposed as convenor by Communist Get together of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury and endorsed by nearly all leaders, together with Lalu Yadav and Sharad Pawar.

Nevertheless, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi interjected and mentioned a choice on this must wait as Trinamool Congress chief and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had reservations over Nitish Kumar for the position.