Nitish anxious about outcome of Guj polls: Paswan

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Press Trust of India Patna
Last Updated : Feb 02 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

"Nitish must be praying that Modi should not do well in the Gujarat assembly polls.... If Modi wins handsomely, his prime ministerial ambition will get wings and that will put his Bihar counterpart in obvious discomfiture," Paswan said.

The LJP chief told reporters that Modi's victory would also put Nitish in a fix on the issue of reviewing his party's alliance with the BJP.

A thumping victory for Modi will definitely have an impact on the political situation in Bihar, which the JD(U) and the BJP have ruled together for the past seven years, he said.

Nitish had in an interview asked BJP to project a secular person as its prime ministerial candidate for greater acceptability in the masses.

Without taking the name of Modi, the Chief Minister had also threatened to review alliance with BJP if it projected him as the prime ministerial candidate.

  

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First Published: Dec 16 2012 | 10:45 PM IST