Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 30: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday stated that he’ll rather die than realign with his former ally, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
I will rather die than join hands with BJP: Nitish Kumar
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) January 30, 2023
Kumar, who paid respect to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary in Patna further accused BJP of using central investigation agencies to target political opponents including Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Reportedly, Nitish Kumar also praised the former leaders of BJP including Atal Vihari Bajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi and compared them to current leaders. Kumar said that the former leaders were very different than the current leaders who tend to listen to nobody with no respect for others.
“So different were the leaders of the same party of the past like former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in whose cabinet I had the privilege to work, and LK Advani who was then the Deputy PM. I have fond memories of Murli Manohar Joshi too who honoured my request to upgrade my alma mater, the Bihar Engineering College, as a National Institute of Technology,” said Kumar while addressing media personnel.
“In contrast, those currently at the helm of affairs listen to nobody and have scant respect for any person and his or her concerns. I want to assert that I will not go back to them as long as I am alive,” Kumar added.
The above statement from Nitish Kumar comes a day after BJP national general secretary and Bihar in-charge Vinod Tawde said that BJP national president J P Nadda and union home minister Amit Shah have firmly maintained that the party will not ally with the JD(U) and its leader Nitish Kumar under any state of affairs.
