Assembly elections 2015: Too early to talk about CM candidate, Sushil Kumar Modi says
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Assembly elections 2015: Too early to talk about CM candidate, Sushil Kumar Modi says
PATNA: Former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi has kept aside the issue pertaining to CM candidate in 2015 assembly elections raised by Union minister Radhamohan Singh.
He said he has appealed to the party colleagues not to speak on the leadership issue in public. "They should not make public their individual opinions on leadership," he said on Tuesday. According to the party tradition, he said, only the central parliamentary board is competent to take a decision on the CM candidate at an appropriate time. It is too early to talk of CM candidate, he said.
The statement of Radhamohan Singh declaring Modi as the unanimous choice of the party for CM candidate raised many objections, particularly by two senior leaders C P Thakur and Prem Kumar. Thakur, while reacting to the union agriculture minister's statement, said, "Some leaders speak whatever comes to their mind."
Prem Kumar, who was urban development minister in the Nitish kumar government and an EBC face of the party, too had claimed to be fit for the CM post. He said the party would contest the 2015 elections united under a joint leadership of senior leaders in Bihar and not under an individual.
Party's state president Mangal Pandey said the individual opinions of senior BJP leaders suggesting Sushil Kumar Modi's name as CM was their opinion and not of party. He also dismissed the suggestions of senior party leaders on CM candidate issue as premature.