Nitish always keeps nation first, says BJP leader

Raipur June 28 (IANS) Amid cracks surfacing in Bihar s ruling Grand Alliance -- comprising Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress -- a senior BJP leader said he does not rule out another stint of the BJP-JD(U) regime in the state.

Talking to IANS Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national Vice President Prabhat Jha said that Bihar s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has always kept the nation s interests first.

He (Nitish Kumar) is a matured and reliable politician who has always kept nation s interests above all other issues Jha said in an interview when he was on a trip to Chhattisgarh this week.

Bihar witnessed tremendous rise when Nitish Kumar was in power in the state with the BJP and I don t rule out possibility of one more stint of the BJP-JD(U) regime added Jha who is also the party s Rajya Sabha member.

I personally congratulate Nitish Kumar for taking an excellent decision to extend support of his party to NDA s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind he said.

Asked to comment on the rising anti-India protests in Kashmir valley during the current BJP-PDP rule the 60-year-old journalist-turned-politician remarked: The nation inherited Kashmir dispute from country s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who mishandled the Kashmir issue.

The BJP will never compromise on national security and nation s integrity in Kashmir. The BJP-led central government will do its best to settle the Kashmir issue forever said Jha who had been the President of the BJP s Madhya Pradesh unit till December 2012.

--IANS
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