Nitish Kumar, who stitched together the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, quit the alliance ahead of the polls. His party colleague and close confidante Sanjay Jha reveals what acted as the trigger.
In an interaction with News18's Amish Devgan, Jha said that if the NDA-JD(U) alliance wins the upcoming elections, Nitish Kumar will remain Bihar's Chief Minister for another five years.
On Rahul Gandhi rejecting Bihar caste census as "fake", Jha made a sharp retort, saying neither the former knows anything about caste census, nor his own caste.
The former Congress spokesperson's remarks came amid a row over Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor's comments praising PM Modi as well as the ruling LDF government in the state.
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“The GHMC election, where Congress got two out of 150 seats, is an apotheosis of Congress’s terminal decadence. It is perhaps the final wake-up call before the curtains roll,” Sanjay Jha wrote in a blog on The Times of India.
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Jha, who has been critical of the way the Congress handled issues regarding rebel party leader Sachin Pilot, said he remains a Gandhi-Nehruvian idealist which is a vanishing breed within the Congress.
The move came after he was suspended as the AICC spokesperson last month.
Recently, Jha had penned an open letter, suggesting that the party was "hurtling towards political obsolescence".
Jha is the national spokesperson of the Congress party and has been one of the strongest critics of the Prime Minister and his government.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, a panel including Pankhuri Pathak, spokesperson for the Samajwadi Party, Sanjay Jha spokesperson for Congress and Syed Zafar Islam, the BJP spokesperson and journalist Shekhar Gupta, discuss the battle for the heart of India and the landmark verdict from the Supreme Court.
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"Prime Minister should have maintained dignity of the high office he holds. There is no problem if he targets previous governments when he is in the country. But he should have refrained from doing so on foreign soil", party spokesman Meem Afzal said.
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Jha, an industry veteran who presided over Motorola's sale to Google Inc , replaces Ajit Manocha, who was appointed CEO in mid-2011 but now reverts to serving as an adviser to Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Company, GlobalFoundries' owner.
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