Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar Friday urged the people of the state to vote his father back to power” in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls, citing the “hard work” that he had undertaken for the state in the last two decades. However, Kumar continued to evade questions about any possible electoral debut, speculations for which began in his first media interaction last month. Speaking to the media at Patna airport after returning from Delhi Friday, Nishant, the only child of Nitish and his late wife Manju Sinha and an engineering graduate from the Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, said: “I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: I’m appealing to the people of Bihar to elect the NDA government again and, if possible, make my father CM again so he could continue to work for the development of the state”. He also denied Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav’s allegations that Nitish was "not in good health” saying he was “100 percent healthy”. Nishant has made a similar appeal during his first media interaction in Bakhtiyarpur last month. That interaction, which came months before Bihar goes into polls, sparked speculations that he could follow his father’s footsteps and make an electoral foray. So far, neither Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar nor Nishant have confirmed this. But sources of the ruling JD (U) sources have indicated to The Indian Express that Nishant could join the party after Holi, with several leaders even seeing him as the “only consensus JD (U) leader in the near future”.
