Patna,(BiharTimes): Political observers have started questioning whether the ruling Janata Dal (United) leaders of Bihar are benefiting or harming their own party by their off-the-cuff remarks.

For example, take the case of Bihar’s agriculture minister Narendra Singh who only a day back directly held the BJP responsible for the serial bomb blasts in Patna and alleged that Narendra Modi is the biggest terrorist of the country.

If it is really true it raises a very serious question. Why it took over 17 years for him to realize this fact. His own chief minister Nitish Kumar had openly applauded the Gujarat chief minister a few months after the riots of 2002 when he himself was the railway minister in the Vajpayee cabinet.

It may be that Narendra Singh has been forced to give such statement as the BJP leaders have repeatedly been accusing Nitish Kumar of being hand-in-glove with the Indian Mujahideen. But the question is: Has the Bihar minister politically helped Nitish––or damaged him by going to the extent of calling BJP’s prime ministerial candidate a biggest terrorist? Never in India’s history have leaders of two different political parties gone to the extent of calling each other terrorists. If they both were terrorists of different shade and colour––or at least hand-in-glove with them––than why were they together for so long. After all they together ruled Bihar for seven and a half years.

Analysts are strongly of the view that the leaders of former NDA constituents are seriously harming their own poll prospect by hurling such abuses on each other.

But there is another side of the story too. There is competition among the leaders within the Janata Dal (United) and BJP to abuse the rivals.

For instance, Narendra Singh and Shivanand Tiwari are now fully aware that Nitish has grown considerably weak. So by giving variety of statements, some in favour of him, and some against, they want to seek their own pound of flesh. The chief minister, who is running a minority government, can not afford to throw out Narendra Singh, a very senior leader, who is aspiring for the post of deputy chief minister of the state.

The picture on the other side of the fence too is more or less the same. Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi is speaking much more loudly against Nitish than his ex-ministerial colleagues Giriraj Singh and Ashwini Choubey because he wants to get rid of the allegation that he had reduced the Bihar BJP to the B-team of the Janata Dal (United).