Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das, second from left, with BJP leaders wave to supporters during Teli Sahu Sammelan in Patna on Sunday. (Press Trust of India)
Patna:
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today described RJD chief Lalu Prasad and senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar as "arrogant leaders" and called for decimation of the JD(U) government in the coming Bihar Assembly polls to usher in development and good governance.
"Both leaders - Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar - are arrogant and it is because of their collective arrogance, Bihar has slipped into a mess over the past 25 years," Mr Das said while addressing a congregation of 'Teli Sahu Samaj' at the Sri Krishna Memorial Hall in Patna.
"One arrogant leader's politics is family-centric and aimed at ensuring as to how his sons and daughters somehow enter the state legislature, another pursues individual-centric politics aimed at promotion of himself alone for which he can do anything," he said in a dig at Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar respectively.
"While one leader (Lalu) has not learnt any lesson from defeat of his wife (Rabri Devi) and daughter (Misa Bharti) in general elections last year and still nurtures ambition to send his sons and daughters to the state legislature, the other leader (Nitish) insulted the Dalits by removing his successor Jitan Ram Manjhi from the chief minister's post to pursue his individual centric politics," Mr Das said.
The Jharkhand Chief Minister criticised his Bihar counterpart, describing him as an ambitious person in addition to being arrogant saying he betrayed the huge mandate in favour of the NDA in the 2010 Assembly elections so that he could fulfil his burning ambition to become Prime Minister.
"He (Nitish) must have thought if Narendra Modi can become the Prime Ministerial candidate, so could he and his this ambition led to parting ways with the NDA two years ago," Mr Das explained.
Taking potshots at Mr Kumar, he said the former resigned from the Chief Minister's post following JD(U)'s drubbing in the general elections so that he could avoid receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Bihar.
However, he had to eat his own words when he had to receive the visiting Prime Minister at Patna airport recently, Mr Das said sarcastically.
He criticised the Nitish Kumar government saying the incumbent Bihar government was not a government at all, but a circus which was being run not by a ring master, but a 'madari' (a juggler).
Observing that Bihar has been a land of rich heritage and birth place of greater personalities, he ruled the state has been languishing in backwardness over more than six decades for which the Congress, RJD and JD(U) were collectively responsible.
"In saare logon ne Bihar ko kalankit karne ka kaam kiya hai (these leaders have brought disgrace to Bihar)," he said slamming the secular alliance constituents with playing divisive politics in the name of caste, region and religion.
While the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre has set out on positive agendas of development and good governance to take India forward, the JD(U) and RJD were playing negative and opportunistic politics by seeking to divide the people at a time when the youth needed opportunities for employment and skill development, he said.
Predicting a drubbing of Nitish Kumar in the coming Assembly polls in the hands of the BJP-led NDA, the Jharkhand Chief Minister urged the people, particularly youth and business community to reject the incumbent regime and its regressive agendas.
In present times, the business community has produced another great person in Narendra Modi who is our Prime Minister symbolising development and good governance, Mr Das said in praise of the PM.
Urging the trade and business community to back the BJP-led NDA government to the hilt in the Bihar Assembly polls, he said his party has always given due representation to the traders and businessmen in the party and government and there was not reason that they would not be given due share to in Bihar too in the event of being elected to power.
"Both leaders - Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar - are arrogant and it is because of their collective arrogance, Bihar has slipped into a mess over the past 25 years," Mr Das said while addressing a congregation of 'Teli Sahu Samaj' at the Sri Krishna Memorial Hall in Patna.
"One arrogant leader's politics is family-centric and aimed at ensuring as to how his sons and daughters somehow enter the state legislature, another pursues individual-centric politics aimed at promotion of himself alone for which he can do anything," he said in a dig at Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar respectively.
"While one leader (Lalu) has not learnt any lesson from defeat of his wife (Rabri Devi) and daughter (Misa Bharti) in general elections last year and still nurtures ambition to send his sons and daughters to the state legislature, the other leader (Nitish) insulted the Dalits by removing his successor Jitan Ram Manjhi from the chief minister's post to pursue his individual centric politics," Mr Das said.
The Jharkhand Chief Minister criticised his Bihar counterpart, describing him as an ambitious person in addition to being arrogant saying he betrayed the huge mandate in favour of the NDA in the 2010 Assembly elections so that he could fulfil his burning ambition to become Prime Minister.
"He (Nitish) must have thought if Narendra Modi can become the Prime Ministerial candidate, so could he and his this ambition led to parting ways with the NDA two years ago," Mr Das explained.
Taking potshots at Mr Kumar, he said the former resigned from the Chief Minister's post following JD(U)'s drubbing in the general elections so that he could avoid receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Bihar.
However, he had to eat his own words when he had to receive the visiting Prime Minister at Patna airport recently, Mr Das said sarcastically.
He criticised the Nitish Kumar government saying the incumbent Bihar government was not a government at all, but a circus which was being run not by a ring master, but a 'madari' (a juggler).
Observing that Bihar has been a land of rich heritage and birth place of greater personalities, he ruled the state has been languishing in backwardness over more than six decades for which the Congress, RJD and JD(U) were collectively responsible.
"In saare logon ne Bihar ko kalankit karne ka kaam kiya hai (these leaders have brought disgrace to Bihar)," he said slamming the secular alliance constituents with playing divisive politics in the name of caste, region and religion.
While the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre has set out on positive agendas of development and good governance to take India forward, the JD(U) and RJD were playing negative and opportunistic politics by seeking to divide the people at a time when the youth needed opportunities for employment and skill development, he said.
Predicting a drubbing of Nitish Kumar in the coming Assembly polls in the hands of the BJP-led NDA, the Jharkhand Chief Minister urged the people, particularly youth and business community to reject the incumbent regime and its regressive agendas.
In present times, the business community has produced another great person in Narendra Modi who is our Prime Minister symbolising development and good governance, Mr Das said in praise of the PM.
Urging the trade and business community to back the BJP-led NDA government to the hilt in the Bihar Assembly polls, he said his party has always given due representation to the traders and businessmen in the party and government and there was not reason that they would not be given due share to in Bihar too in the event of being elected to power.
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