Patna,(BiharTimes): Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of trying to divide secular votes by opposing nomination of Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP though he had in the past publicly supported the Gujarat chief minister and never demanded the latter’s resignation after the riots of 2002.
In a statement issued after flagging off the Akliyat Bedari Mohim Rath (Minorities Awareness Campaign Rath) to several districts he said that after having being together for 17 years Nitish has now been reminded of Modi’s communalism. In fact he in desperation is trying to woo the Muslims by opposing Narendra Modi’s elevation as the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP. In fact by doing so he is trying to divide secular votes.
But Lalu said Nitish would not succeed in his plan to divide the secular votes as the minorities understood his designs.
The former Railway Minister said Muslims have not forgotten the fact that Nitish had kept mum when Gujarat was burning in 2002 riots nor did he take a stand when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted to sack Modi for not discharging his
duties, a move that was stalled by the then deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani.
Lalu also charged Nitish with giving enough space to the Sangh Parivar so that it spread its tentacles. It allowed the RSS to hold camps at the Gandhi Maidan.
The RJD chief once agains said that he was the one who stopped Advani’s Rath Yatra and put him in jail, while Nitish flagged off his Jan Chetna Yatra two years back.
He claimed that both JD(U) and BJP would be wiped out from Bihar in the next general elections.
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