{"id":83977,"date":"2017-05-15T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=83977"},"modified":"2017-05-15T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:16:28","slug":"nitish-says-a-firm-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/nitish-says-a-firm-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish says a firm No&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, firmly ruled himself out as a Prime Ministerial candidate in 2019 today, saying he had &#8220;neither any aspiration nor the ability&#8221;. He also appeared to direct a compliment at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom he has a blow-hot-blow-cold relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The person in whom people will see potential will become the Prime Minister. People saw potential in Narendra Modi during the last elections, he has become the PM,&#8221; Mr Kumar said. But he also commented that five years before that, PM Modi, who was Gujarat Chief Minister, was not even &#8220;in the frame&#8221; to become the PM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83978 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pm-modi-nitish-kumar-smiling_650x400_41437814632.jpg\" alt=\"Nitish says a firm No...\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked on the possibility of him leading a non-BJP alternative, Mr Kumar declared, &#8220;I neither have any aspiration nor the ability to become PM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nitish Kumar&#8217;s name has been swirling in opposition circles as a possible candidate for the top job amid moves to engineer a coalition of non-BJP parties. But today, he emphatically backed out, saying, &#8220;I am not a fool&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he was being &#8220;unnecessarily targeted&#8221; with such talk. &#8220;We are a small party. If I become the national president of my party, it does not mean that I harbour national aspirations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, firmly ruled himself out as a Prime Ministerial candidate in 2019 today, saying he had &#8220;neither any aspiration nor the ability&#8221;. He also appeared to direct a compliment at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom he has a blow-hot-blow-cold relationship. &#8220;The person in whom people will see potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[503,3514,4346,4367,94,5289,43316,11141,43315],"class_list":["post-83977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bihar","tag-chief-minister","tag-elections","tag-gujarat","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nitish-kumar","tag-non-bjp","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-ministerial-candidate-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nitish-Kumar_15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83977","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=83977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}