23/04/2016

Trace out agency which planted reports of early BJP lead on counting day morning:

New JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar

 

Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday urged the Election Commission to trace out the agency which planted reports of early BJP lead throughout election counting day (November 8) morning.

Addressing the Janata Dal (United) National Council meeting at Shri Krishna Memorial Hall he said that this had happened even before the postal ballots were taken up for counting on that day. “I was trimming my beard on that Sunday morning when I observed that my staff were a bit sullen. I inquired from them the reason about it. A few minutes later the channels started giving the news of the lead of Grand Alliance. That was the time I was taking bath. By breakfast I received the phone call from the prime minister congratulating me,” he said while hinting at the dirty game played by his political opponents till the end.

He said that there were no dearth of mediapersons and opposition politicians who wrote him off and even started writing his political obituary. It was a few journalists from Delhi, who reported objectively.
Nitish said that the BJP national president had even predicted how things would take shape at the Bihar CM’s residence on November 8. He even went on to say that by 2:00 PM Nitish Kumar would drive to Raj Bhawan to submit resignation. “But what had happened is known to everyone,” Nitish said.

Earlier the National Council ratified Nitish’s election as the president of the party. He was elected as the national president of the Janata Dal (United) on April 10 in New Delhi. About 1,000 National Council members from across the country attended the meeting where all the top leaders, including the outgoing president, Sharad Yadv, were present.

The chief minister, who spoke last, once again called upon all the non-BJP forces to join hands for having Sangh-Mukt India by 2019.

Nitish rubbished the speculation by media that he was the prime ministerial material. “I do not have any such claim. In the past these very people see prime ministerial material in me…We are just working as a catalyst for change,” the new Janata Dal (United) president said.

Speaking on his prohibition policy he said that he would soon launch the movement against it throughout the country. And the first state he would visit would be Jharkhand, where he would address a programme organized by women, who are campaigning against alcoholism.

He said that he wrote to all the chief ministers in this regard. The Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das sent him a reply, which said that he had received the letter and had sent “your (Nitish’s) letter to the excise department.” This is the reply to the letter of one chief minister to another, the Bihar CM said sarcastically.

Coming down heavily on all those opposing the prohibition policy he said that he was not going to budge and would continue to work in this direction relentlessly. “Many other parties are thinking in terms of following me. In Tamil Nadu, where election is taking place, they have made similar promise.”

Hitting out at Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh government for encouraging the sale and consumption of liquor in their respective states, especially near the border of Bihar, the JD(U) chief said that he would be in Lucknow on May 15 where too he would launch a campaign against the bane of alcoholism.


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