Tuskers, camels, cadre line up as Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant joins JDU | India News
Patna: 50-year-old son of outgoing Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar Nishant Kumarwho stayed away from public life for long, entered active politics and joined the party on Sunday after his father submitted his Rajya Sabha nomination three days ago.Crowds of party workers thronged the JD(U) headquarters in Patna, welcoming Nishant with garlands and a celebratory cavalcade of elephants, horses and camels.
Nishant promised to strengthen the organization
Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and flip-flops, he was inducted by the party’s national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, who presented him with a membership slip at a function attended by senior officials. The BIT Mesra alumnus kept a distance from politics until his 75-year-old father decided to join the Rajya Sabha after serving as chief minister 10 times over nearly two decades.Addressing workers in his first speech as a party member, Nishant Kumar promised to strengthen the organization and justify the trust reposed in him. He said, I will try my best to fulfill the expectations of workers, party and people.Nishant called his father’s decision a personal choice respected by the family and said he would continue to work under his guidance. He credits his father for the development of Bihar. “People will not forget his contribution,” he said to loud applause.Soft-spoken and reserved, Nishant rarely interacted with the media. After joining the party, he offered prayers at Patna’s Mahavir Mandir, visited a tomb near the Patna High Court and distributed sweets to journalists. “God, Allah and Waheguru, are all the same,” he said.The opposition reacted strongly. RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya mocked Nitish’s long criticism of dynastic politics. “Uncle Ji… where is your hollow logic lost in dynastic politics? There is always a big gap between your words and deeds,” he wrote in X, adding that Nitish represented “political and ideological conflict”.Congress Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh welcomed Nishant’s entry but said Nitish should answer questions on clan politics.Nishant’s debut puts him in a long line of children of Bihar chief ministers who have entered politics. Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi’s family has the largest political footprint, with several of their nine children active in politics. Lalu’s younger son Tejaswi Prasad Yadav served as Deputy CM for two terms.
