INDIA Bloc Offered Nitish Kumar PM’s Post, Claims JDU

New Delhi: JDU supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had received an offer from the INDIA bloc to become the country’s Prime Minister but he turned down the offer, claimed senior JDU leader K C Tyagi on Saturday.

Speaking to a TV news channel, Tyagi said the JDU will stay with the BJP in the NDA alliance and there was no question of going back to the INDIA bloc.

According to Tyagi, the leaders who were not ready to make Nitish Kumar the convener of the INDIA bloc were offering him the Prime Ministership after the polls results.

”We made the INDIA bloc a reality…we ended the political untouchability of the Congress party.” he said.

He said the JDU decided to come out of the INDIA bloc over the manner in which its leader was treated. He, however, did not name the leaders who offered the PM’s post Nitish Kumar.

He claimed that his party had snapped all possibility of ties with the INDIA bloc and was happy to work under PM Modi’s leadership.