Nitish Kumar MOCKS Sushil Modi for ‘Comedy Show’ remark, says ‘No one takes him SERIOUSLY’

PATNA: Amid speculations over his projection as the Prime Ministerial candidate in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken a dig at BJP leader Sushil Modi, saying “no one takes him seriously.” Kumar was referring to Sushil Kumar Modi’s recent remarks that the meeting of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekar Rao was the "latest comedy show of opposition unity".

The JDU leader told reporters that Sushil Modi's constant criticism of the new Bihar government might find him favour with the BJP top brass. "Who takes him (Modi) seriously... Even his party does not. Let him say whatever he wants to say. Since he is saying something against me almost every day, he may find a place for himself at the Centre," the CM said on Thursday evening.

It may be noted that Sushil Kumar Modi had on Wednesday termed the meeting of both the CMs in Patna as a "get-together of two daydreamers" and the "latest comedy show of opposition unity".

He also said that “it is a meeting of two leaders who are losing their base in their respective states, and harbouring the desire to become the prime minister of the country.” Amid all this, Janata Dal-United has issued a big statement saying that ‘Nitish Kumar is not in the race to become PM, he is just uniting the opposition.”

The statement was made by JDU national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh who told a news channel that Nitish Kumar is not in the race to become the Prime Minister of the country. The JDU leader is just trying to unite the scattered opposition against the all-powerful BJP led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.”

The JDU national president said that his party's stand is very clear on the issue. “Nitish Kumar is only making efforts to bring all mainstream opposition parties on one platform to challenge the BJP.”

Singh added that all the opposition parties will sit together and decide who will be projected as their joint candidate to take on Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He called all the speculations surrounding Nitish Kumar as "pure imagination."

Singh’s statement assumes significance since Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), who visited Bihar recently, avoided giving a direct response to a question about whether Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will run as the opposition`s candidate for Prime Minister.

KCR said that the opposition parties would meet and make that decision in this regard. While talking to the media during his visit to Bihar, KCR was asked whether Bihar CM Nitish Kumar will be the next PM candidate for the opposition. He dodged the straight response and said that all the opposition parties will come together and then finalise the PM candidate.