New Delhi: After accompanying Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in submitting his nomination for Rajya Sabha election, Union Residence Minister Amit Shah Thursday praised the JD(U) chief’s “golden chapter” within the state’s historical past and mentioned his popularity was by no means tarnished.

“Nitish Kumar served as Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005 to the current. His tenure was a extremely profitable one. This tenure might be written as a golden chapter in Bihar’s historical past… In such a protracted profession, serving as an MLA, MP, Chief Minister, and Union Minister, unke kurte pe kabhi daag nahi laga (his picture was by no means tarnished)” Shah mentioned in an announcement in Patna. 

“He (Kumar) is as soon as once more returning to Delhi as a Rajya Sabha MP. I and all our NDA colleagues heartily welcome him,” Shah mentioned after the method to file Kumar’s nomination papers was accomplished on the Bihar Legislative Meeting.

With NDA’s power of MLAs in Bihar Meeting, Kumar is anticipated to be elected to Rajya Sabha with ease. Elections are due on 16 March.

Shah credited Kumar with electrifying each village and residential in Bihar and making certain that the Centre’s welfare schemes reached each citizen of the state.

“He accelerated all points of Bihar’s improvement. Throughout his tenure, he labored to free Bihar from jungle raj. He not solely related Bihar’s roads to the villages but in addition improved their situation,” Shah mentioned.

“Nitish Kumar has all the time championed simplicity, integrity, and the best values of public life, which he additionally upheld. For 11 years below Narendra Modi’s management, he contributed to Bihar’s progress in each approach. It was below his management that every one the schemes launched by PM Modi reached each citizen of Bihar,” he added.

The Residence Minister famous that Kumar was a outstanding chief of the 1974 Jayaprakash Narayan motion and had since strived to stay by JP’s rules.

Kumar, who has taken oath as Bihar chief minister a report ten instances, has held the publish virtually constantly since 2005—barring a short interval when Jitan Ram Manjhi was put in as CM after the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

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