Nitish questions rescue of 15,000 Gujaratis from Uttarakhand

Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after Janata Dal (United) national spokesman, Shivanand Tiwari, it is the turn of the Bihar chief minister  Nitish Kumar to question the tall claim that 15,000 Gujaratis were rescued in just over a day time by the Gujarat government from disaster-hit Uttarakhand. 

Nitish said he is not a Rambo, who would go to rescue Biharis from Uttarakhand.

The comment was supposedly made in reference to Gujarat chief minister’s visit to flood-ravaged Uttarakhand and the subsequent news that Modi had saved almost 15,000 Gujaratis.

A couple of days later an editorial page article in the Times of India rubbished the claim by asking as to how can 80 Innovas reach Uttarakhand––as claimed by the Gujart government––when all the roads and bridges have been washed away. It is virtually impossible for 80 cars to rescue 15,000 stranded people in just over a day, when the entire army machinery could not do in over 10 days, said the article. The article held an American agency hired by the Modi government responsible for planting such baseless news in the media.

The Congress and other political parties thus got an opportunity to nail the Gujarat government, which soon got on defensive. 

So when the BJP started attacking the Bihar government for not doing anything for the Biharis stranded in Uttarakhand, Nitish got a chance to hit back.