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Seat sharing issues among INDIA allies will be solved by September end: Nitish Kumar | India News
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PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the INDIA allies completed their mutual talks on seat-sharing during the Mumbai meeting on Friday and all issues related to seat-sharing among the coalition partners would be sorted out by the end of this month.
“There is no problem on the issue of seat sharing among the allies. Yesterday, we talked in detail with each other. Now we will internally decide everything very soon and then inform the media. We will finalise everything by the end of this month,” Nitish said while responding to a query on seat sharing, a day after returning from the Mumbai meeting. He was interacting with media persons after participating in the state function organised on the birth anniversary of former Bihar CM Daroga Prasad Rai near the Vikas Bhawan here.
The JD(U) leader, who played a leading role in bringing opposition parties to one platform, also said that the opposition bloc would hold country-wide programmes on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 to express its solidarity with the ideals of Bapu. “We will march forward unitedly,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the Centre’s move to hold simultaneous elections of the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas, Nitish asked, “If they want to hold simultaneous elections, why did they not hold the decadal census?”
“The census used to be held at an interval of every 10 years. But you (PM Narendra Modi) did not hold the 2021 census. It should have been held in 2020 and completed in 2021,” Nitish said and asked the Centre to explain to the public as to why the decadal census of 2021 was not held across the country.
Asked whether he would support the concept of ‘One Nation-One Election‘, the Bihar CM said, “We will talk on this topic when the Centre will come out with its proposal in the Parliament. At that time, we will reply to each point. We will discuss all aspects of the simultaneous election in the House … I have been expressing doubts for a long time that the Centre is making plans to advance the Lok Sabha elections. They may opt for early elections”.
Asked whether the INDIA bloc would raise the issue of caste-based census during the special session of the Parliament, Nitish said, “All matters will be raised. Let them first convene the special session (of the Parliament) and come out with the proposals, we will raise all issues at appropriate time … I want to tell you, they (the Centre) did not do what they should have been.”
Nitish also said that the BJP-led government at the Centre was rattled by the unity among the opposition parties and planning to hold early Lok Sabha elections.
“There is no problem on the issue of seat sharing among the allies. Yesterday, we talked in detail with each other. Now we will internally decide everything very soon and then inform the media. We will finalise everything by the end of this month,” Nitish said while responding to a query on seat sharing, a day after returning from the Mumbai meeting. He was interacting with media persons after participating in the state function organised on the birth anniversary of former Bihar CM Daroga Prasad Rai near the Vikas Bhawan here.
The JD(U) leader, who played a leading role in bringing opposition parties to one platform, also said that the opposition bloc would hold country-wide programmes on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 to express its solidarity with the ideals of Bapu. “We will march forward unitedly,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the Centre’s move to hold simultaneous elections of the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas, Nitish asked, “If they want to hold simultaneous elections, why did they not hold the decadal census?”
“The census used to be held at an interval of every 10 years. But you (PM Narendra Modi) did not hold the 2021 census. It should have been held in 2020 and completed in 2021,” Nitish said and asked the Centre to explain to the public as to why the decadal census of 2021 was not held across the country.
Asked whether he would support the concept of ‘One Nation-One Election‘, the Bihar CM said, “We will talk on this topic when the Centre will come out with its proposal in the Parliament. At that time, we will reply to each point. We will discuss all aspects of the simultaneous election in the House … I have been expressing doubts for a long time that the Centre is making plans to advance the Lok Sabha elections. They may opt for early elections”.
Asked whether the INDIA bloc would raise the issue of caste-based census during the special session of the Parliament, Nitish said, “All matters will be raised. Let them first convene the special session (of the Parliament) and come out with the proposals, we will raise all issues at appropriate time … I want to tell you, they (the Centre) did not do what they should have been.”
Nitish also said that the BJP-led government at the Centre was rattled by the unity among the opposition parties and planning to hold early Lok Sabha elections.
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