(PTI)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today predicted a comfortable victory for the BJP in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, saying that the people of that state were likely to be swayed by the sentiment that “they have their own prime minister”.
“I do not think there is any danger to the BJP in the Gujarat polls. This is my assessment. Will the people of the state vote against the party when it is likely to be at the back of their minds that they have their own prime minister? We ought to take these sentiments into account,” he told reporters on the sidelines of his weekly “Lok Samvad” programme.
The JD(U) chief, however, side-stepped a query on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi showing a lot of aggression during his poll campaign in Gujarat.”I have seen him (Gandhi) in action for long. I am not aware of any new aspect that is being pointed out,” he said. The JD(U) has decided to contest the Gujarat Assembly polls on its own and field candidates on a handful of seats.
Kumar, who is the national president of the JD(U), which shares power in Bihar with the BJP, was responding to queries about the Gujarat polls being touted as the “semi-final” to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
