Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar denied any desire to become the Prime Minister after holding a closed-door meeting with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday. Kumar addressed the media and said talks are underway to bring more opposition parties together to take on the right-wing party, with his main goal being to work for the interest of the country. “I don’t want anything for myself,” he said, refuting claims of being the next prime ministerial candidate.
The Bihar CM also stated that the decision of who will lead the joint force will be decided after the unity is formed. “There will be other people as well, and we will sit and decide,” he said.
Meanwhile, Yadav extended his support to Nitish Kumar to uproot the incumbent BJP government from the country. At a press conference, he said, “We are going to mobilize most of the opposition parties in coalition and fight the upcoming elections.”
This meeting comes days after Nitish Kumar had met Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in the capital, and earlier held talks with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. The Trinamool Congress supremo had demanded ‘BJP to become zero’, while Kumar has ramped up his campaign to remove BJP from power in the next general election.
