‘There is no challenge, Nitish will remain CM’

Patna: Deputy CM and BJP leader Samrat Chaudhary on Tuesday asserted that CM Nitish Kumar is going to retain his post after the state assembly elections even if the "entire UPA or INDI Alliance" fights the polls together.
"There is no challenge. Even if the entire UPA and the entire INDI alliance fight together, Nitish Kumar will remain the chief minister of Bihar," Chaudhary told reporters here hours after the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said in Delhi that, "This time, change is certain in Bihar and the state will be freed from the BJP and its opportunistic alliance."
Kharge's remarks came after his meeting with the RJD leader and former deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav at the former's residence in Delhi. Kharge and Tejashwi discussed issues related to the state assembly polls.
"This time, change is certain in Bihar. Today, we met Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and discussed the strengthening of the Mahagathbandhan. In the coming elections, we will give the people of Bihar a strong, positive, just and welfare-oriented option. Bihar will be freed from the BJP and its opportunistic alliance," Kharge said after the meeting.
In the meantime, the BJP ally JD(U) on Tuesday asserted that Nitish Kumar would be the NDA's chief ministerial face in the assembly polls, two days after Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini created a flutter saying that BJP leader Samrat Choudhary will lead the BJP's victory in Bihar.
JD(U) national spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan Prasad shrugged off Saini's remark and asserted that the ruling alliance faces no crisis over its chief ministerial face in Bihar.
"The state assembly elections will be held under the leadership of Nitish Kumar, and he will be the face of the National Democratic Alliance. Nitish will head the NDA govt which is certain to be formed after the elections for a full term till 2030," Prasad said.