Patna:

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday mentioned the BJP will have to have let its senior chief Sushil Kumar Modi occupy the highest submit after the 2020 Assembly polls as a substitute of insisting that he run for every other time period in place of business.

The JDU chief, who snapped ties with the BJP on Tuesday and joined arms with the opposition RJD to go back because the Chief Minister, made the commentary as a riposte to allegations levelled in opposition to himself through Sushil Modi, his former deputy.

“He has been an expensive buddy. Why was once he now not made the CM? Had he been appointed to the submit, issues don’t have reached this level,” he instructed journalists in respond to questions on Sushil Modi.

Mr Kumar has been keeping up that he was once in no temper to proceed after the elections through which his celebration fared badly however relented upon the insistence of leaders of the BJP.

The alliance was once known as off consistent with a “unanimous sentiment” expressed through JDU leaders who accused the BJP of a “conspiracy” to obliterate the celebration.

Sushil Modi was once changed because the deputy Chief Minister through two less-known BJP leaders after the polls.

After Sushil Modi was once despatched to Rajya Sabha greater than a yr in the past, there have been speculations that he can be regarded as for a cupboard berth on the Centre.