{"id":39746,"date":"2016-12-03T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=39746"},"modified":"2016-12-03T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:19:16","slug":"nothing-to-do-with-bjp-says-nitish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/nothing-to-do-with-bjp-says-nitish\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to do with BJP says Nitish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that his support for the centre&#8217;s demonetisation move shouldn&#8217;t be interpreted as a sign that he was close to allying once again with the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support demonetisation because I believe it is a good step. A political meaning should not be drawn from it,&#8221; he said today at a Leadership Summit, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s decision to scrap old 500 and 1,000-rupee notes which has been challenged by most of the opposition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39748\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pm-modi-nitish-kumar-patna_650x400_51437814856.jpg\" alt=\"pm-modi-nitish-kuma\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He also said the &#8216;Grand Alliance&#8217; forged ahead of this year&#8217;s Bihar elections between his party Janata Dal (United), the Congress and longtime rival Rashtriya Janata Dal led by Lalu Prasad Yadav will last the full five years of the term.<\/p>\n<p>He was also searing in his criticism of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he said they believed &#8220;less in working and more on campaigning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You announce something during the election campaign and then during governance you call it an election jumla (epithet) &#8211; is that governance?&#8221; Mr Kumar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that his support for the centre&#8217;s demonetisation move shouldn&#8217;t be interpreted as a sign that he was close to allying once again with the BJP. &#8220;I support demonetisation because I believe it is a good step. A political meaning should not be drawn from it,&#8221; he said today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[18536,18532,18538,18537,18535,18540,18539,18533,18534,10974,318],"class_list":["post-39746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ban-old-500-and-1000-rupee-notes","tag-bihar-chief-minister-nitish-kumar","tag-bihar-elections","tag-challenged-opposition","tag-demonetisation-good-step-bihar-cm","tag-grand-alliance","tag-janata-dal","tag-nitish-kumar-support-demonetisation","tag-nitish-kumar-with-bjp","tag-political","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nitish-kumar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}