Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that then BJP president Amit Shah had asked him to induct political strategist Prashant Kishor into the Janata Dal-United (JDU).
“Someone wrote a letter I replied to it. Someone is tweeting, let him tweet. What do I’ve to do with it? One can stay in the party (JD-U) till he wants. He can go if he wants…Do you know how did he join the party? Amit Shah asked me to induct him,” said Kumar, while responding to a media question on Prashant Kishor.
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Taking to Twitter despite having said just minutes earlier that he would not respond to Nitish’s ultimatum to him till he returns to Bihar, Kishor who is also working with the AAP as part of Kejriwal’s Delhi polls campaign, said that the JDU chief’s revelation about inducting him into the party on then BJP chief Amit Shah’s referral wasn’t true.
.@NitishKumar what a fall for you to lie about how and why you made me join JDU!! Poor attempt on your part to try and make my colour same as yours!
And if you are telling the truth who would believe that you still have courage not to listen to someone recommended by @AmitShah?
— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) January 28, 2020
Calling it a “Poor attempt on your part to try and make my colour same as yours!”, Kishor added a counter-argument.
Kishor has more than once made his differences with the party known on the issue of the amended citizenship Act. JDU had supported the legislation in both the Houses of Parliament.
Last month, Kishor had told ANI that it is only Bihar Chief Minister Kumar, who can tell under what circumstances the party supported the Citizen (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Earlier, Nitish had issued a similar ultimatum to Pavan Varma, who had disclosed private information in an open letter to the Bihar CM, questioning the party’s ideology over its deepening ties with the BJP.
The JDU is contesting seats in the Delhi elections along with its larger NDA ally, and the Bihar elections are also scheduled to take place later this year.
(With Agency Inputs)