Ashwini Kumar Choubey presses for BJP CM in Bihar

New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior BJP leader in Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey has raised a question on the leadership of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar.

Choubey though said that it is his personal wish, his comments on the party state leadership have created discomfort within the BJP.

"It's my personal wish and I have intimated my party leadership about this. The NDA government in Bihar should be formed under BJP's leadership. We should get full majority on our own and take along our allies too," Choubey told mediapersons in Bhagalpur.


He urged the party workers to start working for the next assembly elections and added that he will work for this without any expectations.

He maintained that the BJP should take Nitish Kumar along as it is taking him now. "The CM face will be decided after elections take place. The party and the central leadership will decide that," he said.

Reacting to Choubey's comment, JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Jha said that there is no confusion over leadership in Bihar. "NDA in Bihar means Nitish Kumar. There is no confusion over this," Jha told media persons in Delhi.

Apart from Nitish Kumar, Choubey also raised questions about the state leadership of the BJP.

Taking a veiled attack at Bihar BJP president and deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary, Choubey said that the party president should not be an imported leader. "It should be someone who follows Deen Dayal Upadhyay's ideology and has been the core party cadre. We don't accept imported leaders," he said.