‘What a joke!’ Nitish on Sushil Modi’s claim that he wanted to be VP

TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday rejected claims by Bharatiya Janata Party MP and his former deputy chief minister Sushil Modi that the Janata Dal-United had split with the National Democratic Alliance as the chief minister was not made the Vice President.

Dismissing it as a totally bogus claim Nitish Kumar told reporters: “You heard a man (Sushil Modi) say that I wanted to be Vice President. What a joke! I have no such desire. Did they forget how much our party supported their President and Vice-President candidate? We were waiting for the election to be over and then convened our meeting.

“On Wednesday, Sushil Modi, claimed that Nitish Kumar wanted to be the Vice President of India, an election which was held on August 6, in which NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar emerged victorious defeating Opposition candidate Margaret Alva.

‘Nitish wanted to become Vice President of India. Many JD-U senior leaders had sent feelers to BJP Ministers to see if it was possible,’ Sushil Kumar Modi said in a tweet. Kumar was sworn in as Bihar chief minister again on Wednesday after parting ways with the BJP and joining the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Grand Alliance to form government in the state.