Nobody has the capacity to take on Modi: Nitish Kumar on 2019 Lok Sabha polls
Speaking to media after forming the government in Bihar following dramatic end to the grand alliance with Lalu Prasad Yadav's RJD, Nitish Kumar said: "Nobody in India has the capacity to take on Modi ji."
The next Lok Sabha election is scheduled to take place in 2019.
Modi became Prime Minister after his BJP recorded a massive win the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Speaking on his decision to break the alliance, the Chief Minister said he had no other left with him.
"I was left with other choice. I tolerated them. Though this happens in an alliance, but I ran out of patience," Kumar said while addressing the press conference.
"We worked hard to keep the alliance together," Kumar said.
Nitish Kumar won the trust vote with the support of 131 MLAs in the Assembly on Friday even as his erstwhile partner RJD spewed venom terming the new alliance of Nitish with BJP as a betrayal of people's trust.
JD(U)-BJP proved the majority in the House with 131 votes in favour as against 108 for the Opposition.
JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar had already sworn in as the CM of the state on Thursday after he severed his alliance with the RJD-Congress over corruption issue and forged a tie with BJP.
The rift between Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad of RJD had reached a flashpoint over corruption issue when deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and his father Lalu Prasad had ruled out resignation of his son over a CBI probe arguing that a fake case was filed against him.
After JD(U)-BJP alliance won the trust vote in the Bihar Assembly on Friday, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar insulted the people of the state as they voted against the saffron party in 2015.
In 2015, the grand alliance comprising of Nitish-led JD(U), Lalu-led RJD and Congress was voted to power in the Bihar Assembly.
Lalu-led RJD emerged as the largest party in the Assembly election 2015 with 80 seats under their belt.
While JD(U) has 71 seats, BJP is in possession of 53.
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