‘What a joke’: Nitish Kumar on Sushil Modi’s ‘he wanted to be Vice President’ claim
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India
oi-Deepika S
Patna, Aug 11:
Bihar
Chief
Minister
Nitish
Kumar
has
rejected
claims
by
BJP
MP
and
his
former
deputy
Sushil
Kumar
Modi
that
some
people
in
Kumar’s
party
gave
feelers
to
nominate
the
Chief
Minister
for
the
Vice
President’s
post.
“You
heard
a
man
(Sushil
Modi)
say
that
I
wanted
to
be
Vice
President.
What
a
joke!
It’s
bogus.
I
had
no
such
desire,”
Nitish
told
reporters.
Bihar
Chief
Minister
Nitish
Kumar
“Did
they
forget
how
much
did
our
party
support
in
Pres-VP
polls?..Let
them
talk
against
me
so
that
they
get
a
position
again,”
he
said.
Bihar
govt
will
fall
before
completing
term:
Sushil
Modi
Speaking
in
an
interview
with
NDTV,
former
Bihar
deputy
CM
and
BJP
leader
Sushil
Modi
claimed
that
the
fallout
between
his
party
and
Nitish
Kumar’s
JD(U)
could
be
linked
to
the
Bihar
chief
minister’s
desire
to
become
the
country’s
vice
president.
“Nitish
wanted
to
become
Vice
President
of
India.
Many
JDU
senior
leaders
sounded
BJP
Ministers
if
it
is
possible,”
Sushil
Kumar
Modi
said
in
a
tweet.
Know all about
Nitish Kumar
The
BJP-led
NDA
had
chosen
former
West
Bengal
governor
Jagdeep
Dhankhar
as
its
vice
presidential
candidate.
Dhankhar
defeated
Margarat
Alva
of
the
opposition
to
ascend
to
the
top
post.
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