Patna: Senior JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of nurturing ‘hatred’ toward him and spurned the offer to contest the Lok Sabha election. Shivanand Tiwari had recently denied re-election to the Rajya Sabha.
Tiwari said in a letter to Bihar JD(U) President Bashistha Narayan Singh, “How can I think of contesting the Lok Sabha elections from his (Kumar’s) side?”
He said, “I know very well that Nitish is asking me to contest the Lok Sabha elections not for my victory, but to get me defeated.”
Tiwari said he had asked Kumar that he was willing to fight LS poll when JD(U) had separated from BJP in June last year.”But he did not say anything.”
The senior JD(U) leader was replying to an ultimatum given to him and JD(U) leaders N K Singh and Shabir Ali, who were denied re-election to Rajya Sabha recently, to inform the party within three days if they were willing to fight the LS polls.
The JD(U) leader had praised Narendra Modi during party convention at Rajgir on October 28-29 in the chief minister’s presence had claimed that since then Kumar was looking to settle scores with him.
Tiwari had come to JD(U) from RJD and was made a RS member in 2008.
State party spokesman Neeraj Kumar said, “On the one hand he is saying he offered to contest LS polls six months ago, but is now hesitating… This reflects his wish to move only on the loopline and not on the mainline.”
Bureau Report
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