‘I’m 79 years outdated…’: Jitan Ram Manjhi declares his retirement from electoral politics

Express News Service

PATNA: Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) patron and former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday asserted that he wouldn’t contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election as he was already 79.

Manjhi instructed media individuals that no particular person ought to contest elections after 75 years of age though it was one other matter some individuals even after attaining this age didn’t hesitate in coming into the electoral fray.

“I am 79 years old, and contesting elections in such a situation will be against my principles,” he remarked whereas saying his retirement from electoral politics.

Manjhi who returned to NDA in June this 12 months had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi final week. After the assembly, he claimed earlier than the media that he had not met Shah in reference to the Lok Sabha election.

It is being speculated that Manjhi wished his son Santosh Kumar Suman, who can be the president of HAM, to be given a ticket within the Lok Sabha election.

Suman was the minister within the Grand Alliance authorities however he had resigned from his ministerial publish, making allegations of Nitish exerting stress on him to merge his occasion together with his occasion, JD (U). Later, he introduced to hitch the NDA.

On the potential for Nitish returning to the grand alliance, Manjhi stated that RJD chief Lalu Yadav and deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had already known as Nitish a ‘Palturam’ so it was troublesome to say when he would once more change sides.

Manjhi stated that his occasion was a small ally of NDA and it had not a lot of a giant function in welcoming or opposing any person becoming a member of NDA. He stated that HAM would oppose if Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Shah wished to carry Nitish again to the NDA.

Manjhi additionally took a special stand from NDA on the problem of RJD MP Manoj Jha allegedly making controversial remarks on the Thakur neighborhood by contending that Jha didn’t say something incorrect, nor did he touch upon any explicit caste. 

PATNA: Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) patron and former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday asserted that he wouldn’t contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election as he was already 79.

Manjhi instructed media individuals that no particular person ought to contest elections after 75 years of age though it was one other matter some individuals even after attaining this age didn’t hesitate in coming into the electoral fray.

“I am 79 years old, and contesting elections in such a situation will be against my principles,” he remarked whereas saying his retirement from electoral politics.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Manjhi who returned to NDA in June this 12 months had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi final week. After the assembly, he claimed earlier than the media that he had not met Shah in reference to the Lok Sabha election.

It is being speculated that Manjhi wished his son Santosh Kumar Suman, who can be the president of HAM, to be given a ticket within the Lok Sabha election.

Suman was the minister within the Grand Alliance authorities however he had resigned from his ministerial publish, making allegations of Nitish exerting stress on him to merge his occasion together with his occasion, JD (U). Later, he introduced to hitch the NDA.

On the potential for Nitish returning to the grand alliance, Manjhi stated that RJD chief Lalu Yadav and deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had already known as Nitish a ‘Palturam’ so it was troublesome to say when he would once more change sides.

Manjhi stated that his occasion was a small ally of NDA and it had not a lot of a giant function in welcoming or opposing any person becoming a member of NDA. He stated that HAM would oppose if Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Shah wished to carry Nitish again to the NDA.

Manjhi additionally took a special stand from NDA on the problem of RJD MP Manoj Jha allegedly making controversial remarks on the Thakur neighborhood by contending that Jha didn’t say something incorrect, nor did he touch upon any explicit caste.