Best to announce PM candidate in advance: Nitish Kumar

Upping the pressure on coalition partner BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said a Prime Ministerial candidate should be announced in advance. Kumar, a senior JD(U) leader, at the same time rejected suggestions that he was nursing prime ministerial ambitions, saying he is not a contender. The next Lok Sabha polls are due in 2014. "People discuss and evaluate such a prime ministerial candidate if the announcement is made by a political party or an alliance in advance. It helps the people in taking the right decision," he told newsmen at the state assembly premises here. Kumar said he had discussed the issue of BJP's prime ministerial candidate for the next general elections during his meeting with the party's president Nitin Gadkari last month but refused to elaborate.

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