{"id":499839,"date":"2024-01-25T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=499839"},"modified":"2024-04-16T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:52:25","slug":"nitish-kumar-karpoori-thakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/nitish-kumar-karpoori-thakur\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitish Kumar takes a swipe at dynastic politics, says never promoted any family members drawing inspiration from his mentor, socialist icon Karpoori Thakur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday took a swipe at dynastic politics being pursued by many leaders today and said he has never promoted any member of his family. He said he drew inspiration from his mentor and socialist icon Karpoori Thakur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitish Kumar was addressing a rally organized by his Janata Dal (United) in Patna to mark the birth anniversary of late Karpoori Thakur, who is hailed as Jannayak in Bihar. Kumar thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the union government for conferring the country\u2019s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, on the socialist leader and former two term chief minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Loved how Bihar CM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitishKumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NitishKumar<\/a> took a dig at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yadavtejashwi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yadavtejashwi<\/a> by openly criticizing nepotism in politics. LOL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gXPqmNmFkV\">pic.twitter.com\/gXPqmNmFkV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Priti Gandhi (Modi ka Parivar) (@MrsGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrsGandhi\/status\/1750163685014651303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central government had announced on Tuesday that the legendary OBC leader from Bihar would be conferred Bharat Ratna posthumously. Nitish Kumar said Karpoori Thakur was the biggest socialist leader of Bihar. He said everyone should remember that Karpoori Thakur never used his clout to promote his family members. He said Thakur always thought about the common people of Bihar and the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bihar chief minister said Thakur in contrast from many leaders today who promote only their family members. He said he had drawn inspiration from him and he never sought to promote any of his family members. Addressing the rally Kumar said the Central government\u2019s decision to confer the highest civilian award on the late socialist icon was a proof of the realization that one cannot go far without respecting his contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JD(U) leader said before attending the rally, he had visited Karpoori\u2019s ancestral village in Samastipur district as he had done over the years on his birth anniversary, and met the late leader\u2019s family, including son Ramnath Thakur, who is the party\u2019s national general secretary and a member of Rajya Sabha. Kumar said Ramnath Thakur told him that the Prime Minister had called him up after the announcement of Bharat Ratna. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitish Kumar was addressing a rally organized by his Janata Dal (United) in Patna to mark the birth anniversary of late Karpoori Thakur, who is hailed as Jannayak in Bihar. 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