“I congratulate him. His predecessor Sharad Yadav did a great job as the previous president of the party and had played a big role in taking the JD (U) forward”, he added.
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Party’s secretary general and Rajya Sabha MP K C Tyagi said Nitish’s election was a unanimous decision of the JD(U) national executive committee after Sharad Yadav, who was at the helm since 2006, decided not to seek election for the fourth term.
In an urgent meeting of National Executive, Yadav declared his resignation from the post and proposed the name of Kumar.
Dismissing speculations whether it would be too much for the Bihar chief minister to effectively run the organisation and the state government simultaneously, Tyagi said there are too many precedents when leaders effectively headed the party as also the government. Kumar has neither faith in any leader nor believes in party’s internal democracy”, Sushil Modi – who served as Deputy Chief Minister under Nitish Kumar for eight years during NDA regime in the state – said.
He will replace 3-time party chief Sharad Yadav.
The election took place in Delhi this morning.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is nowhere in the new combination Nitish Kumar is contemplating to enter the poll fray in Uttar Pradesh. The party will hold its National Council meeting in New Delhi to decide on the new Chief.
This is part of the socialist realignment before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with Nitish Kumar being built as a credible, secular alternative to Narendra Modi-led BJP.
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On extending the reservation to private sector, Kumar said, “If in today’s scenario it is needed to upgrade the ceiling of 50 percent quota then it should be done by the bringing an amendment in the Constitution”.
