Bakhtiyarpur (Bihar):
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday ridiculed the declare of Union Residence Minister Amit Shah that his alliance with former adversary Lalu Prasad was unsustainable like a mixture of “oil and water”.
The JD(U) supreme chief additionally accused the Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre of throttling the media whereas blaming “misgivings” about some information anchors for his or her boycott introduced by the INDIA coalition.
“I take no discover of those people who find themselves rattled by my efforts to carry collectively the opposition and, subsequently, maintain speaking garbage (und-bund bolta hai),” Mr Kumar instructed reporters in Bakhtiyarpur city, on the outskirts of the state capital.
He was responding to queries concerning the rally addressed by Mr Shah, broadly thought to be the BJP’s principal strategist, in north Bihar’s Jhanjharpur.
Rebutting Mr Shah’s cost of misgovernance within the state, Mr Kumar stated, “He is aware of nothing about Bihar and the work we now have been doing right here. He doesn’t know something concerning the nation both”.
In regards to the boycott of 14 information anchors for alleged communal and pro-BJP bias, the longest serving chief minister of Bihar stated, “I don’t know about it. However I’ve all the time been for the liberty of the press which is below assault from these in energy on the Centre. I guarantee you full freedom to observe your career as soon as we defeat the present dispensation”.
Nitish Kumar, who had snapped ties with the BJP a yr in the past, added, “The choice (to boycott 14 anchors) could have been taken due to misgivings (un logon ko laga hoga kuchh idhar udhar ho raha hai)”.
In the meantime, in Patna, former chief minister Rabri Devi, spouse of RJD president Lalu Prasad, bristled on the ‘oil and water’ metaphor utilized by Mr Shah.
“They’re shopkeepers (bania). They appear skilled in adulteration. Therefore they converse such language”, stated Rabri Devi, who succeeded her husband because the chief minister and whose youthful son Tejashwi Yadav is the deputy CM.
The homemaker-turned-politician, whose elder son Tej Pratap Yadav can be a minister within the state cupboard, sought to know why Modi authorities was cautious of holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir which was stripped of statehood and break up into two Union territories 5 years in the past.
She additionally alleged that ever because the new opposition coalition was fashioned, these within the BJP have been “feeling disgrace in uttering the phrase India, although it’s the identify by which our nation is thought in different components of the world”.
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