The long friendship between JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi is often regarded as legendary and compared to Atal Bihari Vajpayee-L K Advani bond.
New Delhi: So it is final, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Nitish Kumar's longtime associate, Sushil Kumar Modi, will now shift to the central politics.
The BJP on Friday decided to field Sushil Kumar Modi as the party's candidate for Rajya Sabha polls. An announcement made by BJP general secretary Arun Singh said the saffron party's central election committee has decided to make him the party candidate for elections to the Upper House of Parliament.
Now all eyes will be on the possible expansion of the Modi cabinet in the centre and perhaps Sushil Kumar Modi will also perhaps make it.
In a surprise political decision after recently held Bihar polls, the BJP central leadership decided to nominate two other leaders as Deputies to the state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar - Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi.
It was then speculated that probably Sushil Kumar Modi would be shifted to Delhi.
The long friendship between JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi is often regarded as legendary and compared to Atal Bihari Vajpayee-L K Advani bond.
However, there has been a difference, according to observers --- that in most instances it has been Nitish Kumar who walked away with glamour and prized positions while Sushil Kumar Modi readily played second fiddle.
Of course, during the height of the debate, Sushil Kumar Modi had tweeted to say: "The BJP and the Sangh Parivar gave me so much in the political life of 40 years. I will discharge the responsibility that will be given to me. No one can take away the post of the party worker".
Perhaps, Sushil Modi provoked high command's unhappiness when he had tweeted in support of Nitish after demands were made from within the BJP to replace the chief minister after the Bihar elections - wherein BJP has won more number of MLAs than its partner Janata Dal (United).
“Nitish Kumar is the Captain of NDA in Bihar & will remain its Captain in next assembly elections in 2020 also. When Captain is hitting 4 & 6 & defeating rivals by inning where is the Q of any change,” Modi tweeted on 11 September.
There has been talk about internal conflict within BJP as a number of state saffron party leaders did not agree to Sushil Modi's decision to openly bat for Nitish Kumar when the JD(U) suffered huge number of loss of seats in the 2020 state assembly polls.
It is said the row was initially kicked off by Sanjay Paswan, who wanted Nitish Kumar to shift to Delhi.
Senior BJP leader Dr C.P. Thakur, a Bhumihar, countered his party colleague and said - “The decision to ally or not to ally or who will be the CM face is to be decided by our central leadership".
Mritunjay Tiwari, a Brahmin legislator and state BJP vice-president, also said that Sushil Kumar Modi’s views are his personal opinion and not of the party’s.
Union minister Giriraj Singh also reportedly does not share a very warm relationship with either Nitish Kumar or Sushil Kumar Modi.
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