Patna:
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said he does not nurse any prime ministerial ambition.
"I have no delusions about becoming the prime minister. I got the people's mandate to serve Bihar and I will respect it. I am happy with that," he said.
Kumar was responding to reporters' queries about his prime ministerial ambitions a day after party spokesman and Rajya Sabha member Shivanand Tiwari told journalists that he was fit for the top job. Tiwari had, however, clarified that as of now L K Advani was the prime ministerial candidate of NDA.
Asked about RJD president Lalu Prasad's criticism of the RSS, which he described as a 'band of dissolute persons', Kumar said, "This reflects his (Lalu's) frustration. I cannot comment on what he said in the same language."
On Prasad calling former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh "a convict" in the Babri Masjid demolition case, Kumar said, "How can he say so? Kalyan Singh is an ally of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and is in the Fourth Front of which both Lalu Prasad and Ramvilas Paswan are constituents."