Nitish Kumar’s jibe comes a little over a month after his party JD(U) left the Mahagathbandhan alliance and joined the NDA again.
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He further assured him that he will not go here and there. “I will stay with you only,” Nitish Kumar added
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar promised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that he will “no more go here and there” and will stay with the BJP-led NDA from now. The Chief Minister’s words was received with laughs and happy smiles by the Prime Minster who was sharing the same stage at Bihar’s Aurangabad.
While addressing a public gathering in the city, Nitish Kumar told PM Modi, “You had come earlier as well but I had vanished. But I am with you now.”
He further assured him that he will not go here and there. “I will stay with you only,” he added.
#WATCH | Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says, “…You (PM Modi) had come earlier as well, ‘par idhar hum gayab ho gaye the. Hum phir aapke saath hai.’ I assure you that I will not go here and there. ‘Hum rahenge aap hi ke saath’…” pic.twitter.com/itLbLBS5rg— ANI (@ANI) March 2, 2024
This comes a little over a month after his party JD(U) left the Mahagathbandhan alliance and joined the NDA again. Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister in January for the ninth time since 2000.
While addressing the gathering the Chief Minister also said that even though the JD(U) and the NDA were not together for all five years, they did carry out a lot of work along with each other.
PM Modi’s visit to Bihar’s Aurangabad on March 2 comes as his first visit to Bihar since Nitish Kumar’s return to the NDA fold. The Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for several national highway projects worth more than Rs 18,100 crores.
He also laid the foundation stone of the six-lane bridge across Ganga that will be developed as a part of the Patna ring road. It will be one of the longest river bridges in the country and help decongest traffic through the capital city and provide faster and better connectivity between the north and south regions of the state.
