Seat-sharing issue in NDA to be resolved in a month: Nitish

  • | Tuesday | 17th July, 2018

So what the state has been receiving on its recommendations is its right.” PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday the seat-sharing issue among the NDA partners in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections would be resolved in a “month or so” as the central BJP was working out the details.“First, the proposal has to come from them (read BJP) and it will come soon,” Nitish, who is also the JD(U) chief, said on the sidelines of his Lok Samvad programme on Monday. When asked to elaborate, Nitish said, “When I say soon, it means three or four weeks — that is around a month.”It was Nitish’s first reaction on the issue since his 20-minute closed-door meeting with BJP president Amit Shah at CM’s house on July 12. Its recommendations made are mandatory. The sum quoted by Shah actually was the amount recommended by the 14th Finance Commission.When asked on Shah using the word “given”, Nitish said, “The Finance Commission is a constitutional body set up by the Centre for the devolution of the divisible pool of central taxes to the states.

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday the seat-sharing issue among the NDA partners in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections would be resolved in a “month or so” as the central BJP was working out the details.“First, the proposal has to come from them (read BJP) and it will come soon,” Nitish, who is also the JD(U) chief, said on the sidelines of his Lok Samvad programme on Monday. When asked to elaborate, Nitish said, “When I say soon, it means three or four weeks — that is around a month.”It was Nitish’s first reaction on the issue since his 20-minute closed-door meeting with BJP president Amit Shah at CM’s house on July 12. Later, Shah had also met state governor Satya Pal Malik.Nitish’s claim over the BJP’s proposal on seat-sharing would be welcomed by the two other NDA partners — Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) led by Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) led by another Union minister Upendra Kushwaha.Asked about the details of his discussions with Shah, Nitish skipped it saying since it was one-on-one talk, there was nothing to reveal about it!Shah, in his address to the BJP’s booth-level Shakti Kendra functionaries here the same day, had said the Centre under PM Narendra Modi had “given” Rs4.93 lakh crore to Bihar. The sum quoted by Shah actually was the amount recommended by the 14th Finance Commission.When asked on Shah using the word “given”, Nitish said, “The Finance Commission is a constitutional body set up by the Centre for the devolution of the divisible pool of central taxes to the states. Its recommendations made are mandatory. So what the state has been receiving on its recommendations is its right.”

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