Nitish for final call on PM candidate at NDA forum
11 Dec 2012 8:37 AM IST
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has once again sounded a discordant note on the hurry being shown by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership to anoint Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as National Democratic Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate during the 2014 general election. The Janata Dal (United) leader said in Patna on Monday that he was taking note of statements of BJP leaders on NDA’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 general election but would make its stand clear on this only when it would come up in the NDA.
‘We are taking cognisance of all these statements (of Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj) but will speak on the issue only when it comes up for discussion in the NDA,’ Kumar is reported to have said. ‘What is the use of speaking over an issue beforehand.... I have never been in favour of opening my mouth before time,’ he said in reply to repeated questions from media persons over comments of BJP leaders Gadkari and Swaraj.
The senior JD(U) leader said he and his party has already spoken as what kind of person should be projected for the post of Prime Minister. Kumar had said in a recent interview that only a person with
secular image should be chosen as NDA candidate for the top post. Modi with the stain of 2002 post-Godhra riots certainly doesn’t fall into the parameters laid by Kumar.
‘We are taking cognisance of all these statements (of Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj) but will speak on the issue only when it comes up for discussion in the NDA,’ Kumar is reported to have said. ‘What is the use of speaking over an issue beforehand.... I have never been in favour of opening my mouth before time,’ he said in reply to repeated questions from media persons over comments of BJP leaders Gadkari and Swaraj.
The senior JD(U) leader said he and his party has already spoken as what kind of person should be projected for the post of Prime Minister. Kumar had said in a recent interview that only a person with
secular image should be chosen as NDA candidate for the top post. Modi with the stain of 2002 post-Godhra riots certainly doesn’t fall into the parameters laid by Kumar.
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