Patna,(BiharTimes): Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi called former chief minister Nitish Kumar Bheeshm Pitamah and termed Janata Dal (United) Secretary General K C Tyagi ‘pagal’ (mad) and ‘Yamdoot’.

When the mediapersons in Khagaria asked the chief minister to comment on Tyagi’s statement he said: “K C agar dimaag pagla gaya hai to kaun bole ga.” (Who will ssay anything if K C Tyagi has turned mad).

Earlier, while addressing a public meeting in Khagaria, for the first time he opened his front against Nitish Kumar and said that ‘samanti takat’ (feudal forces) does not want a Mahadalit to continue.

He came down heavily on the party leadership for calling the Legislative Party meeting without taking him into confidence. The chief minister also said that had party chief Sharad Yadav asked him he would have called the meeting himself. “Why Nitish has not talked to me directly. I would have accepted whatever he would have asked for. Now I am prepared for fight to finish,” he thundered.

He questioned Bheeshm Pitamah like silence of Nitish Kumar. “You know what happened due to silence––Mahabharat,” he said. Instead of talking directly to him Neeraj Kumar is speaking. Than Manjhi referred to P K Shahi and said now another Yamdoot has come, K C Tyagi.

He made it clear that he was not going to quit and is ready for fight.

Manjhi is likely to attend the first meeting of Niti Aayog to be held in New Delhi on Sunday. He may leave Patna on Saturday itself.

He is also likely to meet prime minister Narendra Modi separately.

Responding to Manjhi’s remarks Tyagi said that he is in tension, that is why he is speaking so. “No doctor has so far declared me so,” he added.

On his status in the party, he said that he is the second man in the JD(U) organization after the national chief, Sharad Yadav.