Nitish Kumar announces list of 242 candidates for Bihar assembly polls

Bihar: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today announced a list of 242 candidates of the ‘Grand Alliance’ for the Bihar assembly polls. We have tried to ensure representation of all sections of the society. We took our time to decide the candidates,” Nitish Kumar said in a press conference in Patna. Everybody, even Laluji agreed that I should announce the list of the candidates,” the Bihar chief minister said

Here are the highlights:

• We have tried to ensure representation all sections of the society.
• There are no complaints within ‘Maha Gathbandhan’.
• We took our time to decide the candidates.
• Everybody, even Lalu ji agreed I should announce the list of the candidates.
• We received word from Congress last evening.
• We want to make it clear that development is our biggest factor for the polls but the BJP is only interested in creating divides.
• The recent comments by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on issue of reservation clearly shows that he thinks that present status of the reservation policy is not right.
• RSS wants an extra-constitutional committee to decide who gets quotas, who doesn’t. This is a dangerous thought.
• RSS is Like Supreme Court for BJP.

Bureau Report