Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, who had served an ultimatum to the NDA last week for coming up with a "respectable" seat-sharing formula by November 30, said on Thursday that he would maintain silence till then and will speak after that date based on the response he gets.
He declined to comment on queries of journalists, who approached him at the airport where he boarded a flight to New Delhi, regardimg fate of the seat-sharing after he publically declined the BJP offer of "unrespectable" number of seats to his party Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) in Bihar.
"I will keep quiet till November 30. I will speak only after that date, based on the response that I get", he said.
Asked about his wife's tour of his Karakat Lok Sabha constituency which had triggered speculations of her fighting from the seat in 2019, Kushwaha remarked wryly "why do you want me displaced"?
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