Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday said the name of the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate in the coming Bihar Assembly elections would be decided by the BJP parliamentary board. However, he defended the projection of Kiran Bedi as the BJP’s CM face in the Delhi Assembly polls, asking: “What’s wrong with that?”
Mr. Shah was on a two-day visit to Bihar, where Assembly elections are due in November. Asked whether the BJP would borrow someone from outside like Kiran Bedi as the party’s chief ministerial candidate in Bihar as well, Mr. Shah said “it is for the BJP parliamentary board to decide .” Like Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, the elections in Bihar too would be fought on the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said. He expressed annoyance with a private news channel’s role in ‘promoting’ the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the Delhi Assembly elections. “This channel is having an agenda to help Arvind Kejriwal win the polls in Delhi… there cannot be a bigger example of yellow journalism than this.”
‘It is for the BJP parliamentary board to decide whether or not to name a CM candidate for Bihar’
