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Patna,(BiharTimes): Biharis in Mumbai, especially those who attended the Bihar Diwas celebrations on Sunday (April 15) were shocked to find no mention whatsoever of the leader and people of Bihar in it. Not only that there was not a single photo of any leader of the state for which crores of rupees were spent.
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In fact it ended up as a Maharashtra Diwas function organized by 36 Janata Dal (United) leaders from Bihar who attended it.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar, who was the chief guest, started his speech in Marathi. He praised the contributions of Shivaji, Shahuji, Jyotibhai Phule, B R Ambedkar etc––all the great men produced by the state in the three hundred years.
No where in the function was any mention made about Lord Sachchidanand Sinha, who played a key role in the struggle for the creation of Bihar in 1912. The first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first chief minister of Bihar, Shri Krishna Sinha, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan, Jan Nayak, Karpoori Thakur etc all were forgotten. There was no photo of any of these great sons of Bihar either.
Biharis present in the function were shocked by the way Nitish Kumar surrendered abjectly to the diktat of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, Raj Thackeray.
What is strange is that not a single leader of the alliance partner, the BJP, was present on the dais. The only person who got projection in this whole exercise was none else but the chief minister, Nitish Kumar, himself. Is it because the BJP stands for Bharatiya Janata Party and not Bihar Janata Party? Or for any other reason, as there is no prefix Bihar before Janata Dal (United) too.
Instead of speaking about the glorious past of Bihar, Nitish spoke about the great men of Maharashtra. The Biharis, who attended the function, were dejected by the way the whole show was organized. None of their problems were even remotely discussed not to speak of the killing of young boy like Rahul Raj and others in Mumbai.
“Here in Mumbai, day in and day out we hear about Shivaji. We and our young generation were here to know about the great men and women of Bihar and their contribution to the nation building. It is shocking that a leader like Nitish Kumar surrendered before a bully like Raj Thackeray,” was how one of them commented.
“If he wanted to raise the Maharashtra sub-nationalism why was Nitish here in Mumbai. There are enough people for this purpose here. What about Bihar Diwas then,” asked another.
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