New Delhi: Just months ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had endorsed him to be Bihar chief minister in 2000.
"LK Advani ji, Yashwant Sinha ji, George Fernandes, Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar were also present at the meeting. Everyone voiced their opinion. Then Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji said that make Ram Vilas ji the Chief Minister, the government will run smoothly as he has a nature of taking everyone along. Then I went to him and said don't push me into this. Then he said fine go ahead and make them chief minister but the government won't run. And after eight days the government fell in Bihar," Paswan recalled.
The LJP will fight Bihar polls in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party but the seat-sharing formula has not been decided yet.
Meanwhile, Paswan has ruled out his being in the race for NDA's chief ministerial candidate, saying he would like to remain in the national politics.
"I would like thank (BJP MP) Shatrughan Sinhaji. He is our well-wisher from the beginning. We are like brothers. But, I have already said that I will remain in national politics and not go to the state," he said.
Paswan said that NDA is unlikely to announce any chief ministerial candidate ahead of elections and that the chief minister, in the event of an NDA victory, would be elected only after the polls.
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