Patna: Sounding the poll bugle in Bihar, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-JD(U) alliance in the state and called it opportunistic. He claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar switches sides for ‘kursi’ (chair) only. The Congress president claimed, the alliance between Nitish Kumar and the BJP is opportunistic. It is not good for the people of the state. Nitish Kumar switches sides just for ‘kursi’ (chief minister’s post). The JD(U) chief has joined hands with the ideology that killed Mahatma Gandhi.
The BJP and Nitishi Kumar’s JD(U), as NDA alliance partners, will be taking on the Mahagathbandhan comprising the Congress, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Left parties in the upcoming state elections. Kharge asked about the Rs 1.25 lakh crore package he promised for Bihar in 2015 and said that he was running a “factory of lies”.
“People of Bihar must ask Nitish Kumar what happened to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of Rs 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar, which he had made on August 18, 2015? Modi Ji is running a factory of lies,” Kharge said. Mallikarjun Kharge raked up the Enforcement Directorate (ED) chargesheet filed against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case and said that it was a political witch hunt by the ruling dispensation.
The Congress president also said that the BJP and the RSS were anti-poor and did not care about the welfare of the underprivileged. “They are against the poor, women, and the weaker sections of society. They (RSS-BJP) can’t think for the betterment of society. They believe in dividing society based on caste and religion”, he claimed in an apparent reference to the recently enacted Waqf Act. The 243-member Bihar Legislative Assembly is scheduled to go to the polls later this year.
