‘Nitish Kumar Will Take Big Decision After June 4’: Tejashwi Predicts Another Volte-Face By Bihar CM After LS Poll Results

Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday predicted another volte-face by former ally-turned-rival Nitish Kumar, asserting that the Bihar CM will take a "big decision" after Lok Sabha election results on June 4.

Bihar Lok Sabha Election 2024: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday asserted that his former ally Nitish Kumar will take a “big decision” after the Lok Sabha Election results, predicting that the Bihar Chief Minister will do another volte-face after June 4.

Talking to reporters in Bihar capital Patna, Tejashwi claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not return to power and the country will see a new dispensation come to power after the poll results.

“Modi has lost. He will not be the Prime Minister after June 4. The country will have a new government, sensitive to the crying need for job creation,” the 34-year-old leader said.

Asked about Modi’s claims that the BJP-led NDA will return to power with “a big surprise” in West Bengal, currently ruled by Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is an INDIA bloc partner, Tejashwi junked the PM claims, asserting that “Modi has lost” and won’t return to power.

Yadav, who had lost his job as Deputy CM following Nitish Kumar’s abrupt U-turn and return to NDA in January, also predicted that the Janata Dal (United) supremo will do another volte-face once the Lok Sabha election results are out.

“I would like to add something about my ‘chachaji’ (uncle Nitish Kumar). He may take a big step after the NDA is voted out of power at the Centre,” Tejashwi claimed.

Asked whether he would realign with the JD(U) chief who betrayed him just a few months ago, Yadav said, “That will be seen later. But as of now, I foresee a big decision by him, in the interests of saving his party and his pro-OBC politics.”

In the past decade, Kumar has tied up with RJD, headed by Yadav’s father Lalu Prasad, on two occasions, only to realign with the BJP, his ally since the 1990s.

The young RJD leader has been trying to fish in the Bihar NDA’s troubled waters during the Lok Sabha polls campaign.

Asked whether he will attend the proposed meeting of the INDIA bloc on June 1, Yadav, who has been addressing rallies seated in his wheelchair, with a belt wrapped around his injured spine, replied in the affirmative.

“Yes I will be going,” he said.