Indicating a rift within the party after its split with the ruling JD(U) in Bihar, a BJP MlA on Wednesday said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would be a “better” PM than Narendra Modi and blamed his party for the break-up of the coalition. Rana Gangeshwar Singh, the BJP MlA from Mohiuddinnagar in Samastipur district, came to attend a function in which Kumar was the chief guest.
Singing paeans to Nitish Kumar, Singh described him as gaurav (pride) of the State. “Nitish Kumar will be a better PM than Narendra Modi any day,” the BJP MlA told reporters on the sidelines of the programme ‘Harit Samagam’ organised by the State’s Forest and Environment Department. Rana Gangeshwar Singh is the second legislator from BJP to come out openly in favour of Nitish Kumar despite his party’s increased hostility towards him. Earlier, another BJP legislator from Hayaghat in Darbhanga district, Amarnath Gami had rebelled against the party and was suspended. When reporters asked the CM about the presence of a BJP MlA in the function, he played it down saying “anybody can go anywhere.”