Patna: Bhartiya Janta Party MLA from Katihar Tarkishore Prasad was unanimously elected today as leader of BJP legislature party instead of the Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi who had been holding the post since long.
Besides Mr Prasad, MLA Renu Devi was elected deputy leader of the BJP legislature party.
Mr Modi proposed the name of Mr Prasad for the post of BJP legislature party leader in the BJP legislature party meeting attended by the newly-elected MLAs, MLCs, senior leaders of the party including Bhupendra Yadav, Devendra Fadnavis, state JD(U) president Sanjay Jaiswal and others.
Amid prevailing suspense on the post of Deputy chief minister, Mr Modi posted an emotional tweet on his official Twitter account stating that no one can snatch the post of the party worker from him. He further tweeted that the BJP and Sangh gave him so much in his 40 years of political career that other’s can not get. Whatever responsibility will be entrusted upon him, he will discharge it, maintained Mr Modi.
The BJP leader through his Twitter account also congratulated Mr Prasad for being unanimously elected as leader of BJP legislature party.
While proposing the name of Mr Prasad, Mr Modi said that the BJP honouring him felicitated him with the posts of party chief whip in the state assembly, party leader in the house and the post of Deputy CM. Mr Modi further added that he feels that an elected MLA should be the leader of the legislature party.
