Dushyant Chautala also congratulated Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi.
Chandigarh:
Haryana’s Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala paid Bihar politician Tejashwi Yadav a small compliment on Wednesday for his performance in the national elections, praising the 31-year-old who fought fiercely against his ally BJP.
“I congratulate Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi. People have put their trust in them. Tejaswhi Yadav has fought very well. He is young and energetic. The future can be his. But it is also a record that Nitish Kumar is going to be chief minister. I wish him my best wishes for that, “he said, when asked to comment on Bihar’s results.
Mr. Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party or JJP is part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the BJP, represented in Bihar by Janata Dal (United) of Nitish Kumar and the BJP.
The NDA, which won 125 seats out of 243 states, retained power in Bihar, but Nitish Kumar’s party won just 43 seats compared to ally BJP’s 74.
Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which fought the ballot box in alliance with Congress and the left, was the largest party with 75 seats. The alliance won 110 seats.
The NDA was announced as the winner of the Bihar election in the early hours of Wednesday after weeks of acute campaigning, three rounds of voting and more than 18 hours of counting.
Many praised Tejashwi Yadav’s performance, noting that Congress, which contested 70 seats but won only 19, may have been the main reason for the opposition’s failure.
Last year, it was 32-year-old Dushyant Chautala who won a disproportionate term in Haryana’s election, forcing the BJP to ally with him to stay in power.
The BJP gave the post of deputy chief minister to Mr Chautala, who said his party believed the alliance was necessary for stability after the outcome of the rift.
