Patna,(BiharTimes): Strongly condemning the BJP for celebrating 360 degree turn on Article 370 Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asked: for what are these people bursting crackers in the party office––for the “second murder” of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Mukherjee, founder of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, (the earlier version of BJP) died in a jail in Jammu and Kashmir in 1953 while launching a protest movement against Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which provides special status to this state.

Talking to the media on the sidelines of the Janata Darbar Nitish denounced the unprincipled and opportunistic stand of the saffron party, which had entered into an alliance with the Progressive Democratic Party to form the government in this north Indian state.

The BJP workers burst crackers and distributed sweets not only in the Patna office but elsewhere too after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who holds a totally different view on Article 370, took oath as the chief minister.

Nitish as to how can a prime minister of the country changed his position on such an issue within matter of days, when the Sangh Parivar had been making so much issue of Article 370 in the last over 60 years.

Nitish termed this stand of the prime minister as the betrayal against people of the country. Nitish asked the BJP to make its stand clear on Mufti Sayeed thanking Hurriyat, militants and “people from across the
border” for the peaceful election in Jammu and Kashmir. Hitting out at BJP chief Amit Shah’s remarks on the proposed merger of JD(U) and RJD Nitish questioned as to why the saffron party is still hobnobbing with Sharad Pawar’s NCP, whom none else but Narendra Modi used to call “Naturally Corrupt Party.” He came down heavily on Amit Shah’s U-turn on the black-money issue.