Nitish Kumar rules out post-poll tie up with Congress

New Delhi, October 25: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today ruled out any post-poll tie-up with Congress saying he was a product of a movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan against former premier Indira Gandhi.

At the same time he sought to woo minorities by stressing on the difference of ideology between his party JD-U and its alliance partner BJP.

“I am a product of the JP movement against imposition of Emergency and that does not even come in my line of thinking,” Kumar said in an interview to CNN-IBN when asked whether he is waiting for an opportunity to leave the BJP alliance.

To a question on what was the similarity between his and BJP’s school of thought, Kumar said, “The fact is that ideologies are so different, there is no similarity on many issues, and there cannot be also.

–Agencies