Lagatar24 Desk
Patna, Feb 25: Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, had abandoned the BJP and allied himself with the Congress and the RJD in order to realise his ongoing, “every three years,” Prime Ministerial dreams.
Speaking at a rally in Lauria, West Champaran district, the senior BJP leader declared that the head of the JD(U) had agreed to appoint Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of the RJD, as the next chief minister, and demanded that he make a statement about when he plans to do so.
Speaking in the Balmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency, Shah accused Kumar of bringing Bihar under “jungle raj,” which the latter had previously attributed to the previous Congress and RJD administration. He also claimed that the BJP was disgusted by the former ally’s flip-flops and that its “doors are closed forever.”
“After fighting his entire life, since the days of Jay Prakash Narayan, against the Congress and ‘jungle raj’, Nitish Kumar has allied with Lalu’s RJD and Sonia Gandhi’s Congress. He has become ‘avsarwaadi’ (opportunist) from being ‘vikaswaadi’ (pro-development) for his Prime Ministerial ambitions,” he said.
“Enough of ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’, the BJP’s doors are closed forever for Nitish,” he said.
The Union Home Minister remembered that although the BJP had won a much larger share of seats in the most recent assembly elections than the JD(U), Prime Minister Narendra Modi upheld his pledge to support Kumar for reelection.
In his roughly 30-minute address, Shah also discussed risky initiatives including the surgical strike, the airstrike on Balakot, the repeal of Article 370, and the prohibition on the Islamist group PFI.
