Nitish rules himself out for PM’s post

”I have no delusions about becoming the prime minister.

I got the people’s mandate to serve Bihar and I will respect it. I am happy with that,” he said.

Kumar was responding to reporters’ queries about his prime ministerial ambitions a day after party spokesman and Rajya Sabha member Shivanand Tiwari told journalists that he was fit for the top job. Tiwari had,however,clarified that as of now L K Advani was the prime ministerial candidate

of NDA.

Asked about RJD president Lalu Prasad’s criticism of the RSS,which he described as a ‘band of dissolute persons’,Kumar said ”This reflects his (Lalu’s) frustration. I cannot comment on what he said in the same language.”

About Prasad’s claim that he had nothing to do with former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh during whose tenure the Babri mosque was brought down,Kumar said ”How can he say so ? Kalyan Singh is an ally of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and is in the fourth front of which both Lalu Prasad and Ramvilas Paswan are constituents.”