Responding to BJP president Amit Shah’s statement that Jungle Raj-II had returned to Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Saturday that the BJP had no moral right to comment on law and order in other States as it was unable to explain the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat .
“What were the 2002 communal riots? They should answer it first. What moral right do they have to pass comments on the law and order situation in others States,” Mr. Nitish Kumar told journalists here.
“This is Jungle Raj-II, therefore the people of Bihar are very angry and upset. Now, they want a new government led by the BJP,” Mr. Shah had said at the BJP national executive meeting in Bangalore on Friday.
Mr. Nitish Kumar called the BJP ‘Bharatiya Jumla Party’ for making “tall claims and hiding its failures.” “Even before it completes one year in office, the BJP has started losing steam and inviting the people’s ire.”
On Friday, taking a dig at the BJP’s ongoing national executive committee meeting in Bangalore, Mr. Nitish Kumar said the BJP would not be able to come to power in the State, despite holding series of meetings.
The BJP is scheduled to hold a mega rally of party workers at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on April 14 which will be addressed by Mr Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh among others. Condemning Mr. Shah’s remark, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad said the BJP was spreading anarchy in the country, and it was not fair to call the people of Bihar “junglee.”
‘Will be punctured’
“It is not fair to call the people of Bihar a junglee [uncouth]. The BJP is defaming people of Bihar by calling them junglee”, said Lalu Prasad. He further attacked BJP saying “they are spreading anarchy in the country but they will be punctured in Bihar”.
“What moral right BJP has to pass comments on the law and order situation in others States”
“Even before it completes one year in office, the BJP has started losing steam”
