Nitish downplays speculation about skipping Sonia luncheon

May 26, 2017 20:10

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today downplayed speculation about his skipping the luncheon meeting hosted by Sonia Gandhi and accepting an invite of the prime minister to join a lunch tomorrow, terming it as 'misinterpretation'.

The Prime Minister's lunch is in honour of Mauritius Prime Minister.

"It's all nothing but misinterpretation," Kumar told reporters asking them not to read too much into it.

Kumar said, "There is nothing about going or not going. I had told Ahmed Patel about this 4-5 days back itself when he had called me to invite JD-U for the meeting over lunch".

"The invitation was given to JD-U and Sharad Yadav attended it as party representative," he said emerging from a meeting of the state Cabinet.

With his absence from opposition get together today being seen as a setback to non-BJP parties to field a common candidate in coming Presidential election, Kumar said, "I have already met Sonia Gandhi over it and has telephonic talks with prominent leaders of other parties."

On joining PM's lunch tomorrow, Kumar said he accepted the invitation as the chief minister of Bihar.

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