A day after his Bihar counterpart and bete noire Nitish Kumar took a swipe at him, questioning his secular credentials yet again, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has maintained a stoic silence on the controversy. As Mr Modi flagged off the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Ahmedabad today, he ignored qestions on Mr Kumar's controversial comment on Wednesday, wherein the latter made it clear that he would not accept the Gujarat Chief Minister as the NDA's candidate for the Prime Minister's post.