File photo of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has accused the central government of reacting and responding only on Twitter.
He tweeted early this morning:
Mr Kumar also posted a collection of his tweets asking for a response from the Prime Minister to various questions the chief minister says he posed before Mr Modi's July 25 Muzaffarpur rally, the Prime Minister's first in Bihar kicking off the NDA's election campaign in the state.
Mr Modi will be accompanied by BJP president Amit Shah and other state leaders as he visits Gaya today, his second visit to the state where elections are due later this year.
During his address at NDA's 'Parivartan Rally' in Muzaffarpur last month, PM Modi had alleged that Mr Kumar - who snapped ties with the BJP two years ago because of his legendary rivalry with him - practices "political untouchability," recalling that he had once refused to offer him dinner.
"There seems to be some problem in his DNA because the DNA of democracy is not like that. In democracy, you give respect even to your political rivals," he had said.
Mr Kumar had immediately responded, saying PM Modi had insulted all Biharis.
"The Prime Minister said there is a problem in my DNA. I'm a son of Bihar, so it is the same DNA as the people of Bihar... I leave it to the people of Bihar how they judge a person who maligns their DNA," he had tweeted.
The BJP takes on the combined might of Mr Kumar's Janata Dal United and Lalu Prasad's RJD in what is billed as the most crucial election since last year's Lok Sabha polls. The Congress and its allies have also joined hands with Nitish and Lalu.
The anti-BJP coalition is projecting Nitish Kumar as its chief ministerial candidate. The BJP has not announced one - the face of its campaign is PM Modi in a tested strategy that has paid dividend in other state elections.