Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, April 23
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s presence at the iftar party hosted by the former Chief Minister, Rabri Devi and her son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Friday here has not been received well by the BJP, NDA partner of JDU in Bihar.
A clear indication of displeasure was evident when the union Home Minister, Amit Shah,talked of the ” Jungle Raj” of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi and said people of Bihar can never forget the misrule of RJD.
Speaking as the chief guest at Vijay Utsav at Jagdishpur,80 kms west from here, Amit Shah said people were facing broad day light murders during RJD rule.
Caste clashes had become routine during the regime of the Yadav family. People remained in the dark, Shah said and claimed it was the NDA Government led by Nitish Kumar of JDU and Sushil Kumar Modi that Bihar could emerge into a developed state from Bimaru state.
The Chief Minister welcomed Shah at Patna airport , but did not go to Jagdishpur as the programme to observe the birth anniversary of great freedom fighter of 1857, Babu Kunwar Singh was organised by the BJP.
A new world record of 77900 people waving tricolour was set today at the venue breaking an earlier record of 60,000 flags at Lahore in March,2014.
Nitish Kumar who attended the official programme at Veer Kunwar Singh Azadi park here said the union government should organise birthday celebrations of Kunwar at the national level as he had United freedom fighters of different states.
In an obvious reference to the BJP sponsored celebrations at Jagdishpur today, Nitish said” we had been been organising programmes in the memory of Kunwar Singh since 2005 when we came to power”
The Kunwar Singh park programme was not attended by BJP leaders and Jagdishpur event was not joined by JDU leaders
Amit Shah was invited as chief guest as the BJP had performed poorly in the 2020 assembly elections as only two BJP candidates were elected in Shahabad region having 22 seats and in adjoining Magadh region having 65 seats,only six could succeed against the RJD.
The two regions are dominated by influential land owning upper castes, Rajput and Bhumihar.
