Nitish Kumar is BJP's 'Chunavi dulha', not the CM choice: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday claimed the BJP was ''using'' JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar to sail through the Bihar Assembly election, and he won't be allowed to remain chief minister after the polls.

He asserted that Bihar is demanding a change and wants to move towards a better and prosperous future.

Polling in Bihar will be held on November 6 and 11, and results will be announced on November 14. The opposition Mahagathbandhan alliance, which has the RJD, Congress and Left parties as the main constituents, has declared RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav its chief ministerial candidate for the Bihar polls. Taking a swipe at Nitish Kumar while talking to reporters in Ghazipur, Yadav said, ''He is definitely the BJP’s 'Chunavi dulha', but for the post (of CM) he is not the 'dulha' (groom).'' ''The BJP, under a conspiracy, is using Nitish Kumar. The INDIA bloc was making him the prime ministerial face. Today, he is only a face for the sake of elections,'' he remarked.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister further said, ''I am telling you again, the people of Bihar know everything. Even leaders from the opposition platforms are saying that Nitish Kumar has been brought only for election purposes.'' Yadav predicted the BJP would not make Kumar the chief minister after the elections. ''You can ask on what basis I'm saying this. Look at what happened in Maharashtra and other states. Those who were projected as faces before elections were not made chief ministers later. The same will happen in Bihar too,'' he claimed.